Court jails woman for stealing underwear worth N115,000
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
A woman aged 24, Linda David, has been jailed for two years for stealing both male and female underwear valued at N115,000.
A Kaduna Magistrates’ Court sentenced her after she pleaded guilty to the charge and begged for leniency.
Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel gave her an option of N40,000 fine and warned her to desist from committing crime.
Emmanuel said the judgment would help deter those who would want to indulge in such a criminal act, per reporting by Vanguard.
The defendant was charged on a one of stealing underwear valued at N115,000.
Police prosecutor Chidi Leo, an Inspector, told the court David committed the offence on May 12 at Trinity Supermarket on Ahmadu Bello Way Kaduna, where she stole 20 pairs of female underwear, 20 pieces of boxers, and 15 bras all valued at N115,000.
He said David was caught and handed over to the police by the security officer of the supermarket who noticed she had hidden some of the stolen items under her clothes.
The offence violates Section 217 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
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Woman stabs pregnant rival wife to death out of jealousy
In a previous case of envy and covetousness, a 42-year-old woman, Fatima Rahman, was in May remanded at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for her alleged murder of co-wife Adizat at her residence in Ijede, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.
Fatima, a Chadian, was arraigned before Magistrate P. E Nwaka at the Yaba Magistrate’s Court on a one-count of murder.
She reportedly became angry when she learnt her husband had married a second wife and visited the pregnant woman at her residence pretending to be a nurse and stabbed her to death.
A neighbour of Adizat who saw Fatima when she arrived at the home, accused her of the murder after deep wounds were found on the deceased’s neck and head.
Charge sheet
Police prosecutor Thomas Nurudeen alleged Fatima committed the offence on 9 April 2023 at 43 Alejo Street, Ijede Road, Ikorodu.
The charge said: “That you, Fatima Abdul Rahman, on April 9, 2023, around 12.40 pm, at 43, Alero Street, Ijede Road, Ikorodu, Lagos State in the Lagos Magisterial District did unlawfully kill one Adizat Abdul Rahman, 28-year-old, by stabbing her with a knife and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 233 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
However, Fatima’s plea was not taken and the prosecutor urged the court to remand her in a custodial centre pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
