Death sentence: Details Of Adedoyin’s Appeal Over Timothy Adegoke’s death Emerged

To show his dissatisfaction against the death sentence of the lower court over the death ofOAU student, Timothy Adegoke, owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, where the victim died, Dr Rahman Adedoyin, has approached the Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, to challenge the death verdict.

However, hearing in the appeal filed by Adedoyin, against the death sentence handed down on him by an Osun State High Court, which convicted him over the murder of Timothy Adegoke, suffered setback on Tuesday.

Reorts revealed that the matter before the appellate court was adjourned indefinitely, as there were many cases before it, hence his appeal was not mentioned.

Sour who was at the court sitting on Tuesday, revealed that more than 25 cases came up during the proceedings, hence there was no time to mention Adedoyin’s case.

According to a court official, who anonymously confirmed to our correspondent said the case was not called because so many cases were heard on the same day, adding that the case had been adjourned till another date that’s would be agreed upon after due consultation by the appellant and respondents’ counsels.

It could be recaled that an Osun State High Court, in May 2023, found popular hotel owner, a renowned multibillionaire and industrialist, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin, who is also the Maye of Ife, guilty in the murder of Timothy Adegoke.

_,,,,Adegoke was a Post-graduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife who was found dead in November 2021, at Adedoyin’s Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, where he (the deceased) had lodged.

,,,,,,,In a judgment, the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Adepele Ojo, pronounced Adedoyin and two staff of the hotel guilty of murder charge. The court pointed to the killing of Adegoke while being a guest at the hotel owned by Adedoyin.

However, Adedoyin was sentenced to death by hanging alongside the hotel workers, Adeniyi Aderogba and Oyetunde Kazeem.

___,Adegoke had travelled from his base in Abuja to Ile-Ife on November 5, 2021, to write his MBA exams at the OAU Distance Learning Centre. When friends and family members no longer heard from the student two days after he had confirmed his arrival in Ile-Ife to them, he was declared missing.

____,Later, Adegoke’s body was found in a shallow grave at a location very close to Hilton Hotel and Resorts, where he had been accommodated. Investigations conducted by the police later revealed that Adedoyin was one of the student’s four killers.