Adegoke: Oduduwa Varsity proprietor, Adedoyin, sentenced to death by hanging

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Popular hotel owner and proprietor of Oduduwa University, Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, has been convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Timothy Adegoke.

Adedoyin was sentenced by an Osun State High Court for the murder of Adegoke, a former Masters degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who was killed at his Hilton Hotel, between November 5 and 7, 2021.

The presiding Chief Judge of the state, Adepele Ojo, while delivering her judgement on the case, 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.

Justice Ojo also said Adedoyin’s decision not to enter the witness box meant he agreed to the murder charge pressed against him by the prosecution, dismissing the alibi pleaded on his behalf by his counsel, who said the hotel owner was in Abuja for many days around the time the death of the late Adegoke occurred.

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