The owner of Hilton Hotel Dr Rahmon Adedoyin and two staff have been sentenced to death by hanging over the murder of a Master student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke.
The court presided over by the Chief judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo, found Adedoyin and three of his staff guilty of murder and conspiracy.
Ojo held that circumstantial evidence confirmed Adedoyin and his staff killed Adegoke and tried to conceal the situation.
Adedoyin was sentenced to death alongside two others who were found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
The judge ordered the forfeiture of the hotel and the Hilux bus used to convey the deceased to the dumping ground.
Ojo also ordered Adedoyin to pay the school fees of the two children of the deceased.
Adegoke’s Last Tragic Journey
Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), was said to have traveled from Abuja to write an exam at a distance learning centre of the institution in Moro, Osun state, on November 5, 2021.
He had lodged in Adedoyin’s hotel while preparing for his exam.
The last of his where about was at Adedoyin’s Hilton Hotel until he was declared missing two days later.
But sadly thereafter, he was found dead wrapped in a bloody stained duvet.
How the Cause of Death Was Unraveled
The police would later arrest Adedoyin and the six suspects said to be staff members of Hilton Hotels and Resort, Ile-Ife where the deceased lodged.
In March 2022, Waheed Oluogun, a consultant pathologist at Osun State University Teaching Hospital, told the court that the master’s student died of a severe haemorrhage secondary to severe traumatic injury.
“While exhuming the body, it was found to be completely wrapped in a bloody stained duvet without exposing any part of the body,” Oluogun had said.
“It was found in a supine position with two different ropes, one around the neck, the one around the ankles.
“There were maggots found around the left side of the head up to the entire left upper limb. The body was taken to the mortuary section of UNIOSUN Teaching hospital, Osogbo.
“The body was identified by his brother, Adegoke Olugbade. At our teaching hospital, we planned for post mortem examination to know the cause of death. On the 22nd November 2021, 7 pathologists came for the examination.”
The Court Verdict
Rahman Adedoyin who is the owner of the Hilton Hotel Ile-Ife in Osun where Timothy Adegoke was murdered was sentenced to death by hanging.
The judge, Oyebola Ojo held that circumstantial evidence established that Adedoyin and his staff killed Adegoke and tried to conceal the situation.
Hence, Adegoke alongside two members of the hotel staff who were also found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder were all sentenced to death by hanging, the Court ruled.
