BREAKING: Court Sentences Hilton Hotel Receptionist To 2 Years In Prison Over Murder Of OAU Student, Adegoke
The court docket sentenced the receptionist for altering the receipt issued to the deceased.
Osun Speak Excessive Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced Miss Adedeji Adesola, the receptionist that obtained the leisurely Timothy Adegoke when he lodged on the Hilton Accommodations, Ile-Ife on November 6, 2021, to 2 years imprisonment.
The court docket sentenced the receptionist for altering the receipt issued to the deceased.
The receptionist change into as soon as talked about to comprise fabricated another receipt for the aim of concealing traces of Adegoke’s lodgement on the resort.
Justice Adepele Ojo, the presiding resolve, on Tuesday, came across Adesola responsible of doctoring the resort receipt issued to the deceased, fabricating another and concealing proof.
Staunch by means of Tuesday’s sitting, the resolve pronounced her responsible of conspiracy to electrify proof and conceal the indisputable reality that the deceased lodged on the flexibility earlier than he died.
Justice Ojo in her judgement on Wednesday talked about she took glimpse of the pleas for leniency for the defendant and the provision of Portion 411 of the Constitution.
“I’m equally aware of the instances surrounding the case of the seventh defendant. I’m no longer unmindful of the provisions of the Portion 411 2(b) of the law. I hereby sentence you Adedeji Adesola to 2 years imprisonment starting from the first day of your arrest,” the resolve talked about.
The Hiss talked about the 2 years might perchance perchance soundless start counting from the first day she change into as soon as detained over the crime.
Current resort owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin had been sentenced to death by striking over the death of Timothy Adegoke, a grasp’s pupil of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, whose death happened between November 5 and 7, 2021 at his resort in Ile-Ife, Osun Speak.
Adegoke’s death has been viewed as a case of ruin by the negate.
Six workers of the resort and its Chairman, Dr Adedoyin, the Maye of Ile-Ife, had been arrested and arraigned in the case of the alleged ruin case.
The six workers are Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola, and so that they had been slammed with 18 counts of conspiracy, ruin, criminal, mistaken interference of the corpse, alteration, and cancellation of receipt and oath-taking to prevent justice.
Justice Ojo came across Adedoyin responsible whereas handing over her judgement on the case on Tuesday.
The court docket held that the circumstantial proof on hand to the court docket, pointed to the killing of Adegoke whereas being a visitor on the resort owned by Adedoyin.
Consistent with her, Adedoyin’s decision no longer to enter the compare field did no longer back him, because the circumstantial proof had shifted the burden of proof on him.
