Adewale is the child of the late Oba of Lagos, Adeyinka Oyekan.
Adewale was condemned close by a residential laborer, Lateef Balogun, on Monday by Justice Raliat Adebiyi for choking Ekun and tossing her carcass in a well.
Adewale and Balogun submitted the offenses around 1 are on October 1, 2012, at the expired's home at No. 5 Babatunde Ladega Street, Omole Phase I.
PUNCH Metro reports that the expired had utilized Adewale as the administrator of her eatery, while Balogun was Ekun's residential laborer.
Be that as it may, Balogun's business was ended after a contest with Ekun, which prompted a scheme between the convicts.
It was accumulated that the convicts executed the perished, tossed her body in a well in her compound and assumed control over her business and properties, including a transport that was sold for N170,000.
The examiner, Akin George, had told the court that when an inquiry was made by Ekun's loved ones about her whereabouts, Adewale educated them through an instant message from the unfortunate casualty's telephone that she had ventured out to Abuja for the Eid-el Kabir celebration.
He noticed that after an escalated inquiry, her body was discovered two months after the fact in December 2012 by well diggers and firemen, including that the convicts had put a generator, gas chamber and other family unit things on the carcass in the 1,000 feet well.
Conveying her judgment on Monday, Justice Adebiyi expressed that the arraignment had demonstrated the charges of trick to submit murder and murder past a sensible uncertainty.
She stated, "The incidental proof was solid and pertinent; the demonstration of the litigants in slaughtering the perished was purposeful and planned.
"The court finds that the arraignment has demonstrated past sensible uncertainty the offenses of scheme and murder, and the respondents are as needs be seen as blameworthy of the two checks.
"Segment 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011, stipulates the discipline for the offense of homicide as pursues: 'Subject to the arrangements of some other law, an individual who carries out the offense of homicide will be condemned to death'.
"The equivalent is the discipline for scheme to carry out murder as contained in Section 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011, and the above-referred to arrangements of the law don't give the court any carefulness at all in condemning the litigants.
"Therefore, the first and second litigants are thus condemned as needs be on every one of checks one and two to death by hanging. May God, the provider of life, show kindness toward your spirits."
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