Hotel Receptionist Bags Two-Year Jail Term Over OAU Student’s Murder


The Osun State Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo, made the pronouncement on Wednesday.

The Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has sentenced Miss Adedeji Adesola, the receptionist that received late Timothy Adegoke when he lodged in the Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife in the evening of November 6, 2021, to two years imprisonment for altering the receipt issued to the deceased.

Adesola’s sentence was pronounced at the sitting of the court on Wednesday by Osun State Chief Judge, Adepele Ojo.

She was said to have fabricated another receipt for the purpose of concealing traces of Adegoke’s lodgement at the hotel.

The presiding judge, Justice Adepele Ojo, had on Tuesday, found Adesola guilty of doctoring the hotel receipt issued to the deceased, fabricating another and concealing of evidence charged against her.

The further said the two years should starts counting from the first day she was detained since the commencement of the matter.

On Tuesday, the court convicted the founder of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Ramon Adedoyin and three staff of the hotel of conspiracy to murder and murder of the post-graduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).

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