An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, sentences a 19-year-old student, Hillary Yunana to four months imprisonment for stealing spaghetti and indomie from a shop.
The offender, who lives in Bassa village, along airport road, Abuja, was charged with burglary and theft.
In the ruling, Sani umar, the judge, said that after Yunana has pleaded guilty to the offence and begged the court for leniency.
Umar gave the convict an option to pay N10, 000 for each of the offences, or serve a jail-term of two months each for the offences.
However, he said that the sentence would run concurrently and warned him to desist from committing crime in the future.
The judge said the sentence would serve as deterrence to anyone who wants to tow that depraved path in the future.
Abududulahi Tanko, the prosecution counsel, has already told the court that the thief had broken and entered the shop of Gift Ugochukwu, at the same address on March 4.
He added, that the convict had stolen seven pieces of spaghetti, five pieces of indomie noodles and a cash sum of N10,000, all valued at N13,000, an offence that contravened the provisions of Sections 346 and 287 of the Penal Code.
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