Benue court jails two persons for stealing lady’s handbag

Magistrate’s Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, yesterday sentenced two persons to three months imprisonment for stealing a lady’s handbag.

The court president, Magistrate Masewanger Odinya in her judgment found the accused persons, John Jato and Donatus Tersugh, guilty of two count charge of conspiracy and theft and handed them three months imprisonment respectively.

Earlier, the court heard that one Stella Agune reported the matter on Thursday, August 29, at ‘C’ Division Police Station, North Bank area, Makurdi.

According to the report, the complainant said that the convicts who lived behind NUJ House, Ankpa Quarters, Makurdi sometime in august snatched her pink coloured handbag, containing various valuable items.

Agune told the police that the bag which was valued at N5, 000, contained original copies of her NCE statement of result, SSCE statement of result, photocopy of Diploma in Computer Application certificate, two-in-one MTN Sim car, Nokia handset valued at N8,500 and N180.

The court was told that the convicts were arrested during police investigation and that they confessed to the crime.