Timothy Adegoke’s Death: Prosecution Closes Case

The prosecution has closed the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, the MBA student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife who was allegedly killed at Hilton Royal Hotel, ile-ife, Osun State.

This was after the prosecution counsel, M. O. Omosun had called his last witness to testify before the court.

The hearing resumed on Monday at an Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo where the prosecution led in evidence a Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samuel Odeh of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Forensic Lab.

Odeh, a Forensic scientist, crime scene investigator and analyst said he received a letter of request from the IPO seeking an analysis to be done on a sample brought.

He said the Commissioner of Police, Benedict Agbo under whom he works, minuted to the the letter for the analysis to be carried out.

According to him, “the request was to identify the substance on the curtain swab stick and it was done and a report was issued to that effect.”

He told the court that CP Agbo was unavoidably absent on official assignment in Ghana and could not appear in court.

The prosecution counsel then tendered the result of the analysis in exhibit and was marked and admitted in evidence by the court.

All the defence counsels, Yusuf Ali, SAN, Kehinde Eleja, SAN, Muritala Absulrasheed, SAN and Okon Italian, objected to the admissibility of the report by the court and reserved it till the final address stage.

Since the second witness to be called, a staff of UBA did not oblige sumon to be in court, Omosun told the court that the documents for which those absent were called were already admitted in evidence, therefore closed the case.

In response, all prosecution counsels, having gone through all the evidences before the court prayed the court to grant them 48 hours to file “a no case submission” but the prosecution count asked for four days to be able to respond to the various addressed of no case submission.

The presiding judge, Justice Adepele Ojo however adjourned the continuation of hearing to Friday for the adoption of all written addresses of both the defense and prosecution counsels.