{"id":8796,"date":"2013-08-22T05:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/two-students-jailed-for-stealing-iphone-and-blackberry\/"},"modified":"2013-08-22T05:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:44:47","slug":"two-students-jailed-for-stealing-iphone-and-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/two-students-jailed-for-stealing-iphone-and-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Two students jailed for stealing iPhone and BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Citizens Platform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

An Abuja Magistrates\u2019 Court in Life-Camp on Wednesday sentenced two men, Paul Emmanuel and Mustapha Abubakar to three months in prison for stealing an iPhone and a Blackberry cellphone valued at N265,000.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel, 18, and Abubakar, 23, both reportedly students who reside in Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja, were sentenced by the magistrate, Alhaji Abdulateef Abolaji, after they pleaded guilty to the two counts of joint act and theft.<\/p>\n

Abolaji, however, gave them an option to pay a fine of N3,000 each.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey confessed to stealing the cell phones and have not given\u00a0sufficient cause why they should not be convicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to serve the jail term or pay the fine to serve as a deterrence to others like them,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

He warned the convicts to desist from a life of crime, saying that the court would not be lenient with them if they appeared again for any criminal offence.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the police prosecutor, Cpl. Friday Idi, told the court that the convicts stole the cell-phones, belonging to Alhaji Musa Abdulrahim of Maitama, Abuja on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n

He said that the two convicts pretended to be assisting the victim, whose car fell into a ditch when they stole the phones.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said that the convicts were arrested by the police and they confessed to committing the crime upon interrogation.<\/p>\n

Idi said that the two phones were later recovered from them.<\/p>\n

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