Court Sentences Student To Prison For Stealing Noodles, Pasta

• The student, a resident of Bassa village, along airport road, Abuja, was charged with burglary and theft

• The judge said the sentence would serve as deterrence to anyone who wants to tow that depraved path in the future

EKO HOT BLOG reports that an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a 19-year-old student, Hillary Yunana to four months imprisonment for stealing spaghetti and noodles from a shop.

The student, a resident of Bassa village, along airport road, Abuja, was charged with burglary and theft.

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In his ruling, the Judge, Sani Umar, sentenced Yunana after he pleaded guilty to the offence and begged the court for leniency.

Umar, however, gave the convict an option to pay ₦10, 000 for each of the offences, or serve a jail term of two months each for the offences.

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.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Abudulahi Tanko, told the court the student had broken and entered the shop of Gift Ugochukwu, of the same address on March 4.

Tanko said that he had stolen seven pieces of spaghetti, five pieces of noodles and a cash sum of ₦10,000, all valued at ₦13,000, an offence that contravened the provisions of Sections 346 and 287 of the Penal Code.

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