A combined picture the late Timothy Adegoke and Dr Ramon Adedoyin
An Osun State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced the owner of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Dr Abdulrahman Adedoyin to death by hanging for the muder of Obafemi Awolowo University’s postgraduate student, Mr Timothy Adegoke.
The hotelier was sentenced to death alongside two others who were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Adegoke, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) student, travelled from Abuja to Ife to write his examination and lodged in the hotel only to be declared missing by the police on November 7, 2021.
A few days later, the Osun police command released a statement disclosing that the 37-year-old student was found dead without explaining the circumstances surrounding his death and how he was found.
The court presided over by Chief judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo, found Adedoyin and three of his staff members guilty of murder and conspiracy.
Ojo held that circumstantial evidence confimed Adedoyin and his staff members killed Adegoke and tried to conceal the situation.
The court held that he shall serve a term of ten years in prison before the death sentence is executed.
The court, according Horizontimesng.com and Pulse news, had yet to round off with the judgment delivery as of the time of this initial report.
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