Eleven suspects were on Monday re-arraigned before the Nicosia accident court for the murder of Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale.
The suspect are: COA, EI, OF, JO, JOI, MO, IC, LOI, NIFDM and AE.
The suspects were given eight days of detention by the Nicosia Accident Court to enable the police carry out further investigation.
The suspect were first arraigned on July 12, 2019.
Owoyale went missing on July 1, 2019 and was found dead in the trunk of his car parked in the area known as the Nicosia schools road on July 8, 2019.
In an apartment raid by Northern Cyprus police, on July 11, several people were detained in connection with the murder.
| The suspects |
Police ransacked every room in the three-storey apartment, a machete and a bloody vase thought to have been used to murder Owoyale was recovered by police as evidence.
A teenager reportedly resisted arrest by locking himself in the bedroom, prompting police and firefighters to climb into the bedroom with high-rise stairs.
According to police report, Owoyale, 33, a Cyprus International University PhD student died as a result of “cutting/crushing injuries, multiple fractures of the head bones and brain tissues”.
The suspect will be arraigned again on July 23, 2019.