Man, 34, bags 1 year imprisonment for stealing N110,000
An Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Monday sentenced a 34-year-old man, Wisdom Sakpra, to one year imprisonment without an option of fine, for stealing N110,000
The Magistrate, Mr Ivie Akere, convicted Sakpra after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and stealing.
Akere sentenced Sakpra to six months jail term on each of the two counts.
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The magistrate did not give the convict an option of fine, saying that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others.
Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Patrick Agbonifo, told the court that Sakpra committed the theft with others at large, on Jan. 23, at a First Bank branch at Adesuwa Junction, Sapele Road, Benin.
He said that Sakpra stole the sum from one Mr Andrew Igbodidi, after cleaning his face with a white handkerchief to make him unconscious.
Agbonifo said that Sakpra confessed that he had robbed one Mr Ehis Unemhin at a place close on the Textile Mill Road, Benin.
“The defendant during an investigation confessed to have used handkerchief to clean the victim’s face to dispossess him of the money.
“Sakpra said when he uses the handkerchief to clean a victim’s face, he usually losses consciousnesses and obeys all his instructions and,” he said.
The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 516 and 390(9) of the Criminal Code, Laws of the defunct Bendel State, 1976, now applicable in Edo.
