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CourtThe Appeal Court in Akure, Ondo State, on Tuesday, adjourned for judgment, a case in the murder of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke, at the Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Osun.
The late Adegoke was a Masters degree student of the university whose death occurred between November 5 and 7, 2021, at the hotel where he lodged.
The three-man jury, headed by Justice Olufemi Akeju, held that the date for judgment would be communicated to the counsel, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), and Mr Kehinde Eleja (SAN), after both adopted their written addresses.
The appeal was filed by Chief Ramon Adedoyin, who was sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court, in Osogbo, over the death of Adegoke.
The Osun High Court found Adedoyin and two of the hotel workers guilty in the murder case.
According to the judgement of the lower court, the circumstantial evidence available to the court pointed to the killing of Adegoke while he was a guest at the hotel owned by Adedoyin.
The court also ruled that Adedoyin’s decision not to enter the witness box meant he agreed to the murder charge pressed against him by the prosecution, dismissing the alibi pleaded on his behalf by his counsel, who said the hotel owner was in Abuja for many days around the time the death of the late Adegoke occurred. Punch
