An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Monday, 3 February, 2025, 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 Adekambi Lekan, who was driver of the deceased; Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed, after delivering a judgement which lasted for more than three hours.
The trio were arraigned alongside Fadairo Temitope, wife of the first defendant; Adekambi Adenike, his mother; Owolaja Aanuoluwapo; Usman Azeez; Abass Odetola; and Adewusi Lukman.
They were arraigned for 24-count charge including conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder, arson, escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice, receiving stolen property among others.
Delivering the judgement, Justice Adebowale held that the prosecution proved its cases against three major defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
The judge found them guilty of gruesomely murdering the couple and the son before setting the corpses on fire.
Adebowale also held that the manner with which the convicts murdered the couple and the son, they did not deserve the mercy of the court as prayed by their lawyers.
