Wife of the late Timothy Adegoke has cried out for help over alleged controversies surrouding the emergence of two autopsy reports on the cause of her husband’s death, according to TheNation.
Adegoke, 37, died at Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife shortly after checking into the facility on Friday November 5, and his corpse was dumped in a grave on the outskirts of the city.
The owner of the hotel, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, and some of his employees are being detained over Adegoke’s death.
Police detectives are on the matter.
According to The Nation, the autopsy conducted on the corpse is now generating claims and counter claims from the family of the victim and the suspects.
The bone of contention is the phrase ‘severe trauma’ used by the pathologists in one of the reports as the cause of Adegoke’s death
The official reports are yet to be made public.
Adegoke’s widow, Bolatito, told The Nation that she has not been officially told about the result of the autopsy.
She said: “We are on the matter. Nobody is threatening me, but they are threatening my in-law who is the elder brother of my husband, Gbade Adegoke. They attempted to kidnap him about four days ago.
“The police told us that they would announce the results of the autopsy officially, but I don’t know any latest development about it.
“But I was told that the result of the autopsy favoured us. The police have informed us officially that they have received the reports but I don’t know the content of it.
“We have our pathologist who participated in the procedure. If not because of the type of country we are in, this issue is glaring that my husband was killed. We don’t need to stress ourselves on it.
“He went for his final exam and slept in the hotel. He was killed, buried with the bed sheet of the hotel. We have evidence. I pray that the Nigerian system will not fail me to get justice for my late husband.
“The more I am hearing issues around this autopsy, the more I’m saddened, because they already have overwhelming evidence to nail all the culprits. My husband was hale and healthy when he left Abuja for Ile-Ife.
“Let us even assume that he was sick to death, did they inform family members? They disposed of all his phones and my husband’s personal belongings and even buried his corpse in a shallow grave.
“They (suspects) don’t have any defence. They did not inform any member of the family to notify them of his (husband) death.
“If they claim that there were drugs in his bag, was it to kill himself? He attended a meeting in Akure, if he was not feeling too well I won’t allow him to go for the exam. I did not see any drug with my husband. He was not hypertensive or had any medication before.
“Unfortunately, the autopsy report took a long time than usual. In a sane country, it takes 72 hours. People called us that they were ready to fly the corpse of my husband to an advanced country for an autopsy.”
Meanwhile, Abiodun Williams, a lawyer to the detained owner of Hilton Hotels, Ramon Adedoyin, said contrary to speculations in some quarters, there was no second autopsy conducted on the body of the late Mr Timothy Adegoke.
He said the only one he knew about took place on November 22 at the Morbid Anatomy Department of the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo
