Court gives sentence on killers of Ogun couple only son
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta on Monday convicted and sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, and their son, Oreoluwa, on New Year Day in 2023.
Justice Basirat Adebowale sentenced the trio of Adekanbi Lekan, who was driver of the deceased, Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed, after delivering a judgement which lasted for more than three hours.
DAILY POST reports that Kehinde, a former employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Bukola, alongside their only surviving son, Oreoluwa, attended the 2022/2023 crossover service at the Christ Anglican Church Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
They went home after the service, reveling in the excitement of the new year, unknown to them that they were being trailed.
The couple who lives at Oba Karunwi Road, a street right behind former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s residence, in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, at about 1:30 am were robbed, gruesomely murdered and their house set ablaze.
DAILY POST reported that the suspected assailants, Lekan Adekanbi, Ahmed Odetola, and Waheed Adeniji, tied their son, Oreoluwa and adopted son, Felix, with ropes and threw them into a river along Adigbe-Obada road, where Oreoluwa died.
However, the trio were arraigned alongside Fadairo Temitope (wife of the first defendant); Adekambi Adenike, the mother; Owolaja Aanuoluwapo; Usman Azeez, Abass Odetola and Adewusi Lukman on Monday.
They were arraigned on a 24-count charge relating to conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder, arson, escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice, and receiving stolen property, among others.
Delivering the judgement, Justice Adebowale held that the prosection proved its cases against three major defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
