A High Court sitting in Ikire, Osun State, on Monday, 17 July, sentenced a Pastor with a Church in Ikoyi-Ile, Phillips Segun, to death by hanging for conniving with one Owolabi Adeeko, 23, to kill a final year student of Lagos State University, Favour Daley-Oladele.
Justice Christiana Obadina while delivering judgement sentenced Adeeko, 23, to death by hanging for the brutal murder of Favour, his girlfriend, while his mother, Bola, 46, was convicted for eating human flesh.
Favour, a final year student of Sociology was killed after being lured to Ikire from Lagos.
During the trial, the prosecution team from the Ministry of Justice led by Mrs Adekemi Bello, called nine witnesses, including the police investigating officer and tendered several exhibits before the court, while the convicts testified in their respective defence without calling any other witness.
The prosecutors told the court that Owolabi and Favour had been dating for about a month before he lured her to Ikire under the pretense that she should come visit his uncle while Owolabi, his mother and Prophet Segun had concluded plans to kill her and use her body parts for money ritual.
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The prosecution team said, unknown to Favour that her boyfriend had planned to kill her, she agreed to follow him to visit his Uncle.
However, when they got to Ikire, Favour was killed in the church after Owolabi smashed her head with a pestle, and her organs were used for ritual before her remains were buried in a shallow grave outside the church on December 8, 2019.
Owolabi, after his arrest, narrated how he used his girlfriend to prepare a meal for money ritual called “victory soup” for himself and his mother.
The prosecution team told the court that a few weeks later, the body was exhumed by the police after arresting the suspects who confessed to the murder, and they were first arraigned before the court on November 15, 2021, on two counts bordering on conspiracy and murder contrary to sections 324 and 319(1) of the Criminal Code Cap. 34 Laws of Osun State, 2002.
In her judgement, Justice Obadina said that prosecuting counsel had proven her case beyond a reasonable doubt and found Prophet Philip Segun and Owolabi Adeeko guilty of murder and conspiracy, while Bola Adeeko was convicted of eating human flesh which was contrary to the Law.
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In his allocutor plea, defence counsel Adeshina Olaniyan pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.
The presiding Judge thereby sentenced Prophet Philip and Owolabi to death by hanging for murder and 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy.
She also sentenced Owolabi’s mother, Bola, to two years imprisonment for eating human flesh.