Adegoke’s death: Court sentences Adedoyin, two others to death over OAU student’s death

The Osun State High Court has sentenced the owner of Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Abdulrahman Adedoyin to death by hanging over the murder of a post-graduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke.

Adedoyin was sentenced to death alongside two others found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Recall that Mr Adegoke, a Business Administration (MBA) student, travelled from Abuja to Ile-Ife to sit for his examination. He lodged in the hotel owned by Adedoyin where he hoped to stay out the period of the examinations but was declared missing by the police on 7 November 2021.

A few days later, the Osun State Police Command released a statement disclosing that the 37-year-old student had been found dead. The details of the circumstances of his death were not disclosed in the statement.

While the hotel owner and three others were sentenced to death, three other staff members of the hotel, namely; Magdalene Chiefuna, Lawrence Oluwole and Adedeji Adesola, were discharged and acquitted by the court.

The court also slated the judgement for the sixth staff for Wednesday.

Chairman of the hotel, Mr Adedoyin was charged alongside six of his staff; Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola.

The defendants faced an 18-count charge of murder, conspiracy, and oath of secrecy.