Court sentences killers of Ogun couple, son to death by hanging

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An Abeokuta High Court sitting in Kobape, on Monday, sentenced three men for killing Mr Kehinde Fatinoye and Mrs Bukola Fatinoye and their son Oreoluwa, on Jan 1, 2023.

Lekan Adekanbi, Ahmed Odetola and Waheed Adeniyi were arraigned alongside six others;  Temitope Fadairo and Adenike Adekanbi (wife and mother respectively, of the first defendant Adekanbi).

Others are Anuoluwapo Owolaja, Azeez Usman, Abass Odetola and Lukmon Adewusi.

The defendants were arraigned on a 24-count charge including conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder and arson.

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Others charges are :escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice and receiving stolen property among others.

They however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.

Delivering her judgment, Mrs Basirat Adebowale found that the three major defendants were guilty of nine count.

She held that prosecution has proven its case beyond reasonable doubt that Adekanbi , Odetola and Adeniyi were guilty of the charges.

Adebowale said the offences committed contravened section 21(b),16(1)(b) of the prohibition of forcible occupation of landed properties, armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism and other anti-violence and other related offences Law of Ogun 2016.

She also said that the offences contravened sections 324, 316, 324, 443 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun 2006.

Adebowale, thereafter convicted the trio to death by hanging.

“You Adekanbi, Adetola and Adeniyi for killing father, mother and son; you don’t deserve mercy.

“You are hereby, hang by your neck until you are dead or by lethal injection; may God have mercy on your soul,” she said.

The Judge also convicted Fadairo, the wife of Adekanbi to two years imprisonment for perverting the course of justice by hiding her husband, Adekanbi.

Adenike Adekanbi, the mother of the first defendant, Lekan Adekanbi was also sentenced to one year imprisonment for making false statement to police officers.

Adebowale also convicted Azeez Usman to 14 years imprisonment for count 16; two years for count 18 and seven years for count 19, with hard labour ,which is to run concurrently.

Usman, who was convicted for stolen property, was said to be a welder, who received the stolen vehicle and butchered it to pieces.

While Anuoluwapo Owolaja was convicted to two years imprisonment, Abass Odetola and Lukman Adewusi were discharged of the offence preferred against them.

Earlier during the trial, the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Adefisoye Temilola, Chief State Counsel, told the court that the trio committed the offence on Jan 1, 2023 at Karounwi street, Ibara housing estate in Abeokuta.

Temilola said that Adekanbi, who was the driver to the Fatinoye couple conspired with Odetola and Adeniyi to rob and murder the couple.

She said the trio while armed with gun, hammer and cutlass, robbed Mr Fatinoye of the sum of N1.102 million and one Hyundai vehicle valued at N12million.

She also said they robbed Mrs Fatinoye of her phones valued at N1million.

The prosecuting counsel further explained that after the convict robbed the Fatinoye of their properties, Adeniyi, used a knife to slaughter the neck of Mr Kehinde Fatinoye.

She added that Lekan used a sledge hammer to hit Bukola on her head and also slaughter her neck.

She said after the murder, they set the house ablaze and also killed the couple’s only son, Oreoluwa by tying his hands and legs and throwing him inside Ogun river, which led to his death.

 

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