Adegoke’s murder: Court sentences hotelier Ramon Adedoyin, 2 staff to death by hanging

Blessing Akorowosi, Osogbo

The Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, on Tuesday sentenced the owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adedoyin and two staff members to death by hanging.
The court declared Adedoyin, his workers– Adeniyi Aderogba and Kazeem Oyetunde guilty of the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University.
Adedoyin was charged alongside six of his workers, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola as first to seventh defendants and were docked on 18-count which include murder, conspiracy, oath of secrecy among others.
In her judgment, Chief Judge of the State, Justice Adepele Ojo discharged and acquitted three of the staff members while the 7th defendant is to hear her sentencing on Wednesday following pleas by both the prosecution and defence counsels.
The three discharged persons – Magdalene Chiefuna, Lawrence Oluwole and Adedeji Adesola were pronounced free from the counts of conspiracy to murder and murder.

However, they were found culpable of other counts in the charge.

Adedoyin was convicted of counts 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 15 and 16.
Justice Ojo held that the second autopsy reports signed by two pathologists from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital was thwarted as the court holds that it was a report by persons with vested interest.
She stated that late Timothy Adegoke lodged in the Hilton hotel and paid into the account of the 7th defendant.
“I found the first defendant (Ramon Adedoyin) culpable of the conspiracy to murder and murder.”
The evidence presented before the court placed Oyetunde Kazeem squarely among those who perpetrated the acts and he is found guilty of the counts.
Seventh defendant, Adedeji Adesola was “carefully chorographed into the act. The circumstance around her were not strong to found her culpable of the count 1, 2, and 3.”
The 1st, 3rd and 5th defendants are culpable of the offence of conspiracy to improperly, indecently dumping of the deceased body and are guilty as charged.