Man bags 1 month in prison for damaging car mirrors

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April 3, 2017 2:24 PM

The Magistrate, Mrs O.I Raji, who sentenced him to one month imprisonment, did not give an option of fine.

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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a driver, Seun Taiwo, to one month imprisonment for damaging two side mirrors of a jeep.

Taiwo, 37, a resident of Ibuloko Street, Lanfenwa, Ogun, had pleaded guilty to a malicious damage charge and urged the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing him.

“You are hereby sentenced to one month imprisonment with hard labour and without an option of fine,” Raji said.

The Prosecutor, Insp. George Nwosu, had told the court that the convict committed the offence on March 7, at Iyana-Ipaja, Lagos.

Nwosu said that Taiwo damaged two side mirrors of a Chirokee jeep belonging to Mr Johnson Adeyemo.

“The accused maliciously destroyed the two side mirrors of the complainant’s car, valued at N28,500,” he said.

Nwosu said that the convict damaged the complainant’s car side mirrors because one of his drivers beat him up.

“The accused sneaked into one of the complainant’s buses to sleep; the complainant’s driver sighted him and insisted that the accused must not sleep in the bus.

“An argument ensued and it generated into a fight; the complainant’s driver beat the accused up.

“The accused went to report to the complainant that his driver beat him up because he wanted to sleep in his bus.

“While the complainant was going home, the accused came to block his car and damaged the two side mirrors for refusing to deal with his driver that beat him,” he said.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 337 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

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