A Grade 1 Area Court sitting in Lugbe, Abuja, has sentenced a 23-year-old motorcyclist, Shalom Yusuf, to five months imprisonment for stealing N10,000.

Yusuf of Games village in Abuja was sentenced to five months imprisonment on Thursday, August 31, 2023, after he pleaded guilty to two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.

The convict also pleaded with the court for leniency.

The prosecutor, Stanley Nwaforaku, told the court that the complainant, Uche Uzondu of Jedo Estate Airport Abuja, arrested and brought the motorcyclist to Iddo Police Station on August 15, 2023.

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Nwaforaku said on the same date at about 9:30 p.m., Yusuf smartly entered into the complainant’s wife pharmaceutical shop and stole her N10,000 cash.

He told the court that in the process of escaping, the motorcyclist was caught and the money was recovered from him.

The prosecutor said during police investigation, Yusuf confessed to committing the crime.

He said the offence contravened Sections 348 and 287 of the Penal Code.

The presiding judge, Aliyu Kagarko, however, sentenced Yusuf to five months imprisonment with an option of N15,000 fine.

Kagarko warned the convict to be a good citizen and of good behaviour and desist from committing crime after serving his jail term.

The judge said the punishment would have been stiffer if the convict had not saved the court the rigour of protracted prosecution.

The Star