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By Emmanuel Adeleke
An Osun State High Court has sentenced the owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile Ife, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin, and two staff of the hotel to death by hanging over the murder of a master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile Ife, Timothy Adegoke.
The court, which was presided over by the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo, found Adedoyin and two 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 incident.
Recall that Adegoke was killed at Adedoyin’s Hilton Hotel in Ile Ife, in November 2021.
The deseased’s body was later found in a shallow grave along old Ede Road by the police.
Following the discovery, Adedoyin and his workers were arrested and arraigned on 18-count charge bordering on murder, conspiracy, oath of secrecy among others.
Adegoke, an indigene of Eruwa, in Ibarapa East Local Government Area of Oyo State, was until his death, a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife, Osun State.
He was buried in January 2022.