Oromoni: New Twist As LASUTH Pathologist Faults First Autopsy Report, Reveals What Was Later Found In Sylvester’s Intestine

 The Sylvester Oromi case got to a new twist  on Tuesday as  a pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr Sunday Soyemi, on Tuesday, revealed how a blackish substance was found in the intestine of 12-year-old, at variance with  the initial autopsy  conducted on him which found no harmful substance.

The pathologist made the revelation while being cross-examined by the Lawyer to the Oromini’s, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) at the ongoing coroner inquest set up to unravel the cause of the little boy’s death.

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It would be recalled that Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, had last year died in controversial circumstances, but his death gained traction after his cousin, Perry Oromoni made a social media post alleging that some senior pupils of the college beat him up in his hostel because he refused to join a cult.

The school in its initial reaction denied the claim, stating that the boy complained of leg pains following an injury he sustained while playing football.

Some of Oromoni’s colleagues in Dowen College were arrested  for possible connivance in his death but were released by the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), after the autopsy could not link the  death to  beating or grievous harm caused by external factors.

A coroner inquest was then set up to look into the circumstances surrounding the death.

Soyemi, a LASUTH pathologist, while being led in evidence by Babajide Martinss, the Director of Public Prosecutions at the proceedings on Tuesday, said the first autopsy carried out on the corpse was botched because the process was not properly done.

While faulting the first autopsy report, Soyemi noted that some organs that would have revealed whether the victim died of ingestion of a poisonous substance were not cut by the first pathologist.

Soyemi further revealed that the deceased had a generalised infection that could have been treated with massive doses of antibiotics, intravenous fluid and blood transfusion.

 

In his words:

 “Following the order for a post-mortem examination issued by the coroner, I conducted a second autopsy on the body of the deceased. An initial interim report was issued and finally, a full autopsy report was also issued to the office of the coroner.

 

“Prior to the conduct of the autopsy, I did a total body radiograph to rule out any skeletal injury, that is, fracture; none was found and the radiologist confirmed there was no fracture. Before I started the autopsy, the doctor who conducted the first autopsy was in attendance and he was in attendance throughout.  So, I observed that the autopsy was not properly done. All that was not properly done is documented in my statement.

 

“For example, at the first autopsy, the pathologist never opened the oesophagus; the oesophagus is the food pipe. He also did not open the trachea; it is the air path through which we breathe. These are vital things that he should not have missed out.

 

“He concluded his report as chemical intoxication. For one to be intoxicated with a chemical, that chemical has to pass through the oesophagus, that is the food path. For someone that has not opened the food path, he cannot talk about chemical intoxication. A chemical that would be injurious to one, after ingestion, should cause injuries on the oesophagus because it would pass through the oesophagus, so it should never have been anything near chemical intoxication if he did not open the oesophagus.

 

“He also did not open the lungs; he did not detach the lungs from the heart. If he had done that and waded the lungs, it would tell him that something is wrong with the lungs. These are some of the many things he did not do. He did a botched autopsy and this was the cause of the controversy surrounding this case.”

But while being cross-examined by Mr Falana, the pathologist told the inquest that he did not carry out any test on the black substance found in the deceased’s intestine because LASUTH did not have a laboratory to test poisonous substances, but admitted that the substance found in the intestine could have been anything as it was not tested to confirm what it was.

 

Soyemi, while revealing how his findings showed that the deceased had lobar pneumonia, infection of the lung, liver, and also infection on the right ankle, asserted Sylvester died of septicaemia.

 

He ruled out physical harm while explaining that if the deceased was physically assaulted or beaten, all the exposed areas would show haemorrhage.