After about 19-month long trial, the day of judgment finally came for Dr Ramon Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife, who was on Tuesday convicted for the cold murder of Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s degree programme student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Persecondnews reports that Adedoyin, an Ife Chief is to die by hanging for the killing of the lodger in his hotel, according to a verdict by an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.
The suspected ritual killing occurred between November 5 and 7, 2021 at the hotel.
Delivering her judgment, Osun Chief Judge, Justice Adepele Ojo, held that the circumstantial evidence available to the court, pointed to the killing of Adegoke while being a guest at the hotel owned by Adedoyin.
According to her, Adedoyin’s decision not to enter the witness box did not help him, as the circumstantial evidence had shifted the burden of proof on him.
Ojo also said Adedoyin’s refusal not to enter the witness box meant he agreed to the murder charge pressed against him by the prosecution.
She, therefore, dismissing the alibi pleaded on his behalf by his counsel, who claimed that the hotelier “was in Abuja for many days around the time the death of the late Adegoke occurred”.
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