Hotel Owner Sentenced To Death For Murder Of OAU Student

A popular hotel owner in Osun state, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death by hanging over the death of an OAU postgraduate Student, Timothy Adegoke.

Myschoolnews reports Dr. Adedoyin, owner of Hilton hotel, Ile-Ife was sentenced along with six of his staff for being found culpable in the students' death.

Delivering the judgement, the Osun State chief judge convicted the accused on an 18 count charge.

Her judgement read  "I found the first defendant (Ramon Adedoyin) culpable of the conspiracy to murder and murder,” she said.

The court held that the evidence presented before the court placed Oyetunde Kazeem “squarely among those who perpetrated the acts” and he was found guilty of the counts.

The 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 were found culpable of the offence of conspiracy to improperly, indecently dump the deceased body and were guilty as charged.