Teenager and accomplice sentenced to six years in jail for stealing two phones and laptop

TEENAGER Happy Okotie and 25-year old Kingsley Ebose have been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the Oredo Magistrates Court in the Edo State capital Benin for stealing two Nokia phones and a laptop along with N17,000 in cash.

 

Mr Ebose, 19 and his accomplice, were both sentenced without the option of a fine by the magistrate, Mrs RacheaI Ogbevoen, who  found them guilty on two counts of burglary. The offence was said to have been committed on August 25, 2016, in New Benin, in the Oredo Local Government Area of the state.

 

Police prosecutor Patrick Agbonifo, had told the court that the convicts conspired to commit felony on the day. He explained that they broke into a store belonging to one Tessy Okpebiye at night and stole some items.

 

Mr Agbonifo had listed the stolen items to include one Nokia battery, two Samsung Galaxy phones, one laptop and a cash sum of N17,000. According to Mr Agbonifo, the stolen items were worth N235,000.

 

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened sections 516 and 411 of the Criminal Code, Cap , Vol. II, Law of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976, as applicable in Edo State.