Autopsy reveals Sylvester Oromoni died from ‘acute lung injury from chemical intoxication in a background of blunt force’
An autopsy report which has been made public, has revealed that Sylvester Oromoni died from ‘acute lung injury from chemical intoxication in a background of blunt force’.
Recall that report of the Dowen College student’s death after allegedly being bullied by his seniors in the Lagos school, led to an outcry including high profile reactions weeks ago, as many demanded for justice.
The autopsy report signed off by one Dr Clement Vhriterhire, revealed that the late student had a scalded upper lip, bruised flanks/back, acute gastric erosion, acute lung injury, cerebral oedema with raised intra-cranial pressure and enlarged liver.
The family of the late Sylvester Oromoni has knocked the Lagos State Police Command for releasing the housemaster and other staff of Dowen College, Lekki.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, on Friday said that the house masters had been released since the court order to remand them had expired.
He affirmed that there was a need for them to have their freedom since the medical report had not indicted them so far.
He said, “The corpse was brought from Delta to Lagos. The post-mortem was carried out in Lagos. The result is out. As of now, it has not brought out the issue of murder on anybody (sic).
”Toxicology is still to be carried out which is the final one. The interim one has not. Based on that, the court order we got has elapsed and we have released the housemaster and others on bail on Thursday because they have not been indicted of murder. It is only murder cases that are not subject to bail.
“Since the medical report has not indicted them so far, I think there is a need for them to have their freedom because bail is not the end of the case.”
Odumosu explained that the police had concluded its investigations and forwarded its report to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions and had received a response from the DPP.
However, Sylvester’s father disagreed with the police’s decision, stressing that it was wrong to have released the Dowen College workers when things had not reached a logical conclusion.
