The parents of a Nigerian student convicted of robbery and blackmail by a United Kingdom court have appealed to British authorities to review the judgment, insisting that their son was wrongly found guilty and had no involvement in the offences.
Mr Aderinkola Akinrinola and Mrs Olayinka Akinrinola made the appeal in a statement on Thursday following the conviction of their son, Oluwatobiloba Akinrinola, by a UK court on June 19.
Oluwatobiloba, who is currently being held at a prison in Nottingham, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 27.
The distraught parents maintained that the conviction was based largely on circumstantial evidence and their son’s association with the principal suspect rather than direct evidence linking him to the alleged robbery.
According to them, Oluwatobiloba met the alleged ringleader, Richile Vagnu, shortly after gaining admission into Leicester University in September 2025, stressing that they were merely acquaintances.
