Hilton Hostels Chairman, Dr Raheem Adedoyin has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo for the murder of Timothy Adegoke.

The Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Adepele Ojo, who delivered the judgment on the matter on Tuesday, also sentenced to death two staff of Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, Adeniyi Aderogba, and Kazeem Oyetunde.

Media remembered that Timothy Adegoke was a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, who died in November 2021 at Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

Three staff of Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, Magdalene Chiefuna, Lawrence Oluwole, and Adedeji Adesola were discharged and acquitted by the court while the sentencing for the seventh defendant is to be passed on Wednesday.

The reason the court revealed is due to pleas by both the prosecution and defence counsels.

Media had earlier reported that security was beefed up at the premises of the Osun State High Court ahead of the judgment.

Adedoyin, who is the Chairman of Hilton Hotels, Ile-Ife, was charged along with the staff of the hotel Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwole Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola.

The defendants were charged on an 18-count charge of murder, conspiracy, and oath of secrecy among others.