A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Tuesday sentenced a 40-year-old painter, Dominic Maitala, to two years imprisonment for stealing a car.
The Magistrate, Mrs Irene Pati, sentenced the convict, who pleaded guilty to the charge.
Pati, however, gave the convict an option of N100,000 fine and ordered him to pay N7 million as compensation and in default to spend additional one year in prison.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat , told the court that the complainant, Peter Walar, reported the case on March17, at the Area Command Metro Police Station.
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Gokwat said the convict was told to watch the car at the garage but he took the car away and claimed he was drunk and did not know who stole the car from his house where he parked it over night.
He said the offence contravened the Plateau Penal Code Law.
(NAN)
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