Police investigation of last month’s death of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, MBA student, Timothy Adegoke, have thrown up a new twist for detectives following the emergence of two autopsy reports on the cause of his death.
Adegoke, 37, who died at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife shortly after checking into the facility on Friday November 5, had his corpse dumped in a grave outside the city where the hotel is located.
The owner of the hotel, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, and some of his employees are currently in detention over Adegoke’s death.
The autopsy is generating confusion from the family of the victim and the suspects.
The bone of contention is the phrase ‘severe trauma’ that was used by the pathologists in one of the reports as the cause of Adegoke’s death.
Meanwhile, the official reports are yet to be made public.
The autopsy which was conducted on November 22 by six experts including 3 pathologists, were presented as a report to the Police Headquarters, Abuja with a copy submitted to the Osun State Police Command penultimate Thursday.
The four-hour autopsy, The Nation 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 in attendance
The entire process started with the identification of the body by the elder brother of the deceased, Gbade Adegoke.
One of the autopsy reports, sources revealed, attributed Adegoke’s death to ‘severe trauma’ while the other report said the cause of death could not be medically determined due to the advanced stage of decomposition of the body of deceased.
There is no mention of the time he suffered the trauma relative to the time of death and the type of trauma.
But the two reports agree that the deceased’s internal and external organs (including the genitalia) were complete, untouched and in their normal positions.
Sets of internal organs such as the heart, kidney, livers and others could not be subjected to the test because they were said to be already in advanced decomposition stage.
A source said “The stomach had decomposed and was melting while they were carrying out the test,”
One of the reports also 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,”
However, the corpse had a sub-capital fracture on its femur.
The report did not state when this occurred; whether before or after his death.
It added: “Furthermore, due to the advanced nature of the decomposition of the body and the internal organs, no toxicology tests were conducted on the body and other internal organs to determine whether the deceased died of poison, chemical inhalation or other harmful substance (s) or of natural causes or diseases.
