Court jails teenager 6 months for stealing phone

A Jos Area Court, on Monday sentenced a teenager, Hassan Faruk, to six months imprisonment for stealing a Nokia phone valued N 120,000.

The Judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced Faruk, 18, after he pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him, and prayed the court for leniency.

Bokkos also gave the convict, a Mechanic, an option of N50,000 fine.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported at the Angwan Rogo Police Station on May 15 by the complainant, Mr Umar Isa.

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Gokwat said that the convict trespassed into the complainant’s room and stole his Nokia phone valued N120, 000.

He said that during police investigation, the convict confessed to have committed the offence, and that the phone was recovered from him.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened the Plateau State Penal Code law.