Prophet Segun Philip, 42, and Owolabi Adeeko, 23, have been sentenced to death by an Osun State High Court, sitting in Ikire, Nigeria, for the killing of Favour Daley-Oladele, a final year female student of Lagos State University (LASU) for ritual purposes.
Delivering judgement on the case in Ikire on Monday, Justice Christiana Obadina also sentenced Bola Adeeko aged, 46 years, the mother of Owolabi, to two years imprisonment for eating human flesh.
Owolabi and Favour met in LASU and were dating before the man invited her over to Ikoyi-Ile, Osun State, in December 2019, and Favour was lured to Philip’s church also in Ikoyi-Ile, where she was drugged and killed with a pestle.
Favour’s remains were buried in a shallow grave within the church premises by both men, after harvesting some organs from her.
The organs harvested from the deceased were reportedly used to prepare concoctions for Owolabi’s mother to improve her business fortune which was nosediving at the time.
In the course of the trial, the prosecution team called the police investigating officer that worked on the case and 8 other witnesses and tendered several exhibits before the court.
The defendants did not call any witnesses but entered the witness box to testify in defense of their different roles in the matter.
Delivering her judgement, Justice Obadina declared that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt and pronounced Philip and Owolabi guilty of conspiracy and murder.
She sentenced them to death by hanging for murder while Owolabi’s mother, Bola Adeeko, found guilty of consumption of human flesh, was sentenced to two years imprisonment.