Court Remands Suspected Killers of CBN Staff, Family
The suspected killers of Mr and Mrs Kehinde Fatinoye and their only surviving son have been remanded at the Correctional centre by an Abeokuta Magistrate Court, sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta.
The defendants, Lekan Adekanbi, Ahmed Odetola, Waheed Adeniyi, Temitope Fadairo, Adenike Adekanbi, and Anuoluwapo Owolaja are facing 11-count charges, bordering on conspiracy, murder, felony, arson, stealing and escape from lawful authority, amongst others.
The Police counsel, Miss Oluwatosin Jackson, who moved a motion ex-parte pursuant to Section 306 of Administration of Criminal Justice Laws of Ogun State, prayed for an order of the court to remand the defendants.
Miss Jackson prayed the court to remand the defendants for sixty days, in the first instance, at Oba Correctional Centre, pending legal advice from the office of the State Director of Public Prosecution.
She said that the suspects, Adekanbi, Odetola and Adeniyi, committed the offences on the first of January 2023 at Ibara Housing Estate in Abeokuta.
The police counsel said that the defendants killed Mr Kehinde Fatinoye, by piercing his neck with a knife and Mrs Bukola Fatinoye, by hitting a hammer on her head.
The prosecutor stated that the defendants also killed the only surviving child of the couple, Oreoluwa, by pushing him into Ogun River, which led to his death………………………………CONTINUE READING
She explained that they also stole six phones, valued at one point five million naira and one Hyundai car, valued at twelve million naira from the couple at gunpoint and later set the couple and their house ablaze.
The Chief Magistrate II, Mrs Esther Idowu, ordered that the five male defendants be remanded at Oba correctional centre while the two female defendants are remanded at Ibara Correctional Centre for 60 days, pending legal advice from the office of the state Director of Public prosecution.
She adjourned the case till 17th April 2023 for mentioning.
