Adedoyin, the owner of Hilton Hotel where the OAU student was allegedly murdered, has been denied bail along with others
An Osun State High Court on Thursday remanded in a correctional facility the owner of Hilton Royal Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, and six others over the death of a Master’s degree student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke.
Adedoyin, as well as Adedeji Adesola, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwale Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem and Adebayo Kunle had appeared before the court on 11 counts bordering on murder, indecent interference with a dead body, administration of extrajudicial oath and alteration to conceal evidence.
All the defendants pleaded not guilty and counsel representing them, Mr. Kunle Adegoke, SAN, and K. Eleja, SAN, moved applications for bail for the first to sixth defendants.
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Adegoke however informed the court that a formal application for bail could not be filed for the seventh defendant because she was added less than 24 hours earlier to the list.
The prosecutor, M. Omosun, opposed the bail application for Adedoyin and others.
In her ruling, Justice Adepele Ojo, adjourned till Friday for the defence to file and move formal bail application for the seventh defendant.
She subsequently remanded Adedoyin and the others at the Ilesa correctional facility.
TheNiche had reported that the police in Osun said that the son of the owner of Hilton Hotel who is the Managing Director of the Hotel, drove the body of Timothy Adegoke to the bush.
Adegoke was a master’s degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) who lodged in the Hilton Hotel in Osun but was found dead in a bush.
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Olawale Olokode, revealed that the son of Dr Ramon Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Hotel who is now at large, organised the throwing away of the body of Adegoke.
The commissioner, who made this known on a radio programme in Osogbo, the state capital, said the act was carried out with the assistance of two managers.
Nigeria Tribune newspaper reports that the CP said: “One of the receptionists of the hotel who was on duty believed that the victim paid for two nights, and that he entered the room on Friday between 5pm and 6pm on Friday, adding that by Sunday he would have left. She was the one who went to that room to discover that after several knocks and no response, she came to look for a spare key.
“Each of the staff, manager, auditor, checker and others believed that it was their duty to report to the management of the hotel.
“After reporting to the MD, he rushed down to the hotel. The MD now asked two of his managers to join him and convey the corpse. And up till that point, they believed that, he was taking the corpse to the police or hospital.
“The MD who drove the vehicle himself, drove them to a bush and asked them to throw the corpse into a bush and instructed them not to reveal it to anyone. The personal property of the corpse was also thrown into the bush according to them.
“We combed the bush and up till now, nothing of such was found. Timothy died inside the room in Hilton Hotel and the corpse after two days was discovered which was taken to a bush about 2km away from the hotel and thrown into a bush.
“Meticulous investigation of police discovered where the corpse was buried against the claim that it was thrown. Six suspects were arrested. The suspect confessed that the corpse was found in one of the rooms in the hotel.
“Three of the staff packed the corpse and threw it into the bush. None of them confessed to the actual killings
