Crime
Court frees 12 Ajayi Crowther student arraigned for beating colleague to death
The Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, discharged 12 out of the 25 students of the Ajayi Crowther University previously charged with the murder of their fellow student on July 1, 2024.
It must be recalled that the students were accused of beating Timileyin to death for allegedly stealing a mobile phone and were remanded in prison.
The 12 students who were freed are identified as Kehinde Martins, Samuel Okorie, Mustapha Khalid, Yusuf Adeniran, Joseph Areoye, Iyanuoluwa Oyelakin, Obaloluwa Olalekan, Emmanuel Adejumobi, John Daudu, Moses Abiola, Hammad Tijani and David Kolawole.
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While discharging them, it was held that the legal advice was out, which indicated that the 12 students should not be charged with any offence, as there was no evidence linking any of them with the offences.
One of the 25 defendants, who is a security guard at the university, Femi Oladoye, earlier charged with negligence of duty, was also granted bail in the sum of N250,000, with two sureties in like sum.
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