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Following the death of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, MBA student, Timothy Adegoke, an autopsy reports on the cause of his death has been revealed.
Adegoke, 37, died at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife shortly after checking into the facility illegally on Friday November 5, and his corpse was taken out of the hotel.
The owner of the hotel, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, and some of his employees are being detained over Adegoke’s death.
The autopsy conducted on the corpse claims he had ‘severe trauma’ revealed by the pathologists in the report as the cause of Adegoke’s death.
The official reports are yet to be made public.
The autopsy was conducted on November 22 by six experts including three pathologists. Their reports were presented to the Police Headquarters, Abuja with a copy submitted to the Osun State Police Command penultimate Thursday.
The four-hour autopsy, gathered, took place at the Department of Morbid Anatomy, Osun State University Teaching Hospital with all sides, including the bereaved family and their lawyers as well as those of Adedoyin and the police, present.
The process started with the identification of the body by the elder brother of the deceased, Gbade Adegoke.
The autopsy reports, sources revealed, attributed Adegoke’s death to ‘severe trauma’.
And the report reveals that the deceased’s internal and external organs (including the genitalia) were complete, untouched and in their normal positions.
The internal organs like the heart, kidney, livers and others could not be subjected to the test because they were said to be already in advanced decomposition stage.
“The stomach had decomposed and was melting while they were carrying out the test,” a source said.
“Pathologists agreed that no incision, cut or blood injuries, bruises or wound were found on his neck. The deceased suffered no fracture wounds or injuries to his ribs,” one of the reports said.
Police sources told a national newspaper that officials of the Water and Environmental Sanitation Department of the Ife Central Local Government Area buried the corpse after obtaining clearance from the Nigerian Police Force, “A” Division, Moore, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
A medical doctor who does not want his name mentioned described the severe trauma phrase as an open-ended conclusion.
“Trauma could be as a result of Marathon sex”, insider source revealed that Timothy Adegoke Died of sexual v sexual trauma with the Hilton Receptionist.
Recall that Timothy slept at Hilton hotel illegality, “Due to the fear of the management not knowing about his illegal stay at Hilton, his lifeless body was taken out of the hotel, also to frustrate police arrest,” source said.
No second autopsy was conducted — Adedoyin’s lawyer
Abiodun Williams, a lawyer to the detained owner of Hilton Honours Hotels, Ramon Adedoyin, said contrary to speculations in some quarters, there was no second autopsy conducted on the body of the late Mr Timothy Adegoke.
He said the only one he knew about took place on November 22 at the Morbid Anatomy Department of the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.
He said: “At the said post mortem examination, all parties were duly represented. Prof. Obafunwa led the team for the deceased family while Prof. Olusegun Ojo led the team for Dr Ramon Adedoyin. Three other consultant pathologists led by Prof. Afolayan led the government team.
“As you can see, it was a formidable team of well experienced seven consultant pathologists that carried out the autopsy. And there was no other one other than that.”
Williams explained that Dr Adedoyin was still being held because when a court makes a pronouncement, it has to be processed and enforced
He said: “There are procedures under the law for doing this.
“We are following the procedures. The police have been duly served with the order of the court and very soon they will comply with the order and release him to go to any medical facility of his choice to take care of his urgent medical needs.
On the allegation of ritual killing levelled against Adedoyin, Williams said: “He is a very good Muslim and very hardworking. His wealth has a traceable history. He didn’t become wealthy overnight. He started from the scratch.
“From home lesson teacher to tutorial, to polytechnic and finally establishing a university. As a matter of fact, some people in Ile-Ife are still calling him ‘Tutorial’ till this day about his then ‘Universal Tutorial College’ in the 80s.”
Williams expressed sadness over the misinformation that has been in the media, especially social media, and urged the law enforcement agencies to go after the people engaging in cyber bullying, misinformation and criminal defamation.
While declaring that he was not aware whether Roheem, Chief Adedoyin’s son had been declared wanted by the police or not, he appealed to Roheem wherever he is to submit himself to the appropriate authorities so that the investigations into this case can be concluded.”