An Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, yesterday,
sentenced a 20-year-old unemployed man, Azeez Adams, to nine months
imprisonment for stealing two Blackberry phones.
The Magistrate, Mr Akeem Fashola, sentenced Adams
after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and stealing.
Adams, of no fixed address, blamed his action on the
devil and pleaded for leniency.
The magistrate gave him an option of paying a fine
of N60,000.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Cpl. Kehinde Olatunde, had
told the court that the accused and others at large committed the offence on
March 5, at 9.30p.m., at Oshodi.
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He said that the accused and others conspired to
steal a N64,000 Blackberry Touch phone belonging to one Miss Oloruntimilehin
Olayinka, and a N25,000 Blackberry Bold phone, property of one Mr Emmanuel
Adebiyi
“Olayinka and Adebiyi were receiving calls at the
bus stop when the accused snatched their phones and crossed to the other side
of the road.
“The accused was pursued and when he discovered
this, he quickly passed the two phones to his colleagues, who escaped with
them, while he was arrested,” the prosecutor said.
According to him, all efforts to recover the phones
have proved abortive.
Olatunde said that the offence contravened Sections
285 and 410 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
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