“You Must Die By Hanging”, Court Of Appeal Tells Dr. Adedoyin, Over Murder Of OAU Student

By Ayodele Oni

The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure,  Ondo State capital, on Thursday, January 23, 2024, ruled that a Hotelier and University Proprietor, Chief (Dr) Rahmon Adedoyin, must die by hanging. He is to pay the supreme price for the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU) Ile Ife in his Hotel, Hilton Honours.

The Appellate Court on Thursday upheld the Adedoyin guilty verdict in  the Master’s  degree student’s murder.

Adegoke had lodged in Adedoyin’s Hotel in Ife on arrival from Abuja where he was working to take his final examination as a Master’s degree student. But in the night, he was inexplicably murdered and his body dumped in a nearby bush.

The appellate court noted that the judgment by the Osun State High Court, which sentenced Adedoyin to death still stands.

The appeal court had reserved the judgment on October 29, 2024.

The judgement read in parts, “The judgment of the High Court of Osun State stands. Adedoyin’s appeal is dismissed in part. The Court of Appeal held that Adedoyin was properly convicted and sentenced to death.

“Order of forfeiture of Hilton Hotel quashed and set aside. Order of education scholarship to children of Timothy Adegoke by Adedoyin and others quashed and set aside.”

Adegoke was found dead in November 2021 at Adedoyin’s Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife, where he had lodged.

A source close to the defence said Adedoyin would proceed to the Supreme Court in a last ditch effort to save his neck from the hangman’s noose.