An Asaba Magistrate’s Court Tuesday sentenced one Emmanuel Michael to five years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing gold earrings worth N25,000.
The convict who immediately pleaded guilty to the two-count charge leveled against him upon arraignment, broke down in tears in the dock, saying “I was hungry.”
The prosecution stated that the accused “on the February 1, 2013 at back of NTA Asaba in the Asaba Magisterial District broke into the house of one Okechukwu Uheghbu and stole a pair of gold earrings and its pendant valued at N25,000, property of Mr. and Mrs. Okechukwu Uheghbu and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 411(1) of the Criminal Code Cap C21 Vol. 1 Law of Delta State of Nigeria, 2006.”
While sentencing him to five years imprisonment with hard labour, the Presiding Chief Magistrate, Sylvester Ehikwe, stated that “he does not deserve mercy as burglary is next to armed robbery.”
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