Crime
Trader bags 18 months jail term for swindling customers of N177,000
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Thursday sentenced a 40-year old trader, Nancy Vincent to 18 months imprisonment for swindling her customers of N177,000.
The judge, Ms Simi Drenkat, sentenced Vincent after she pleaded guilty to the offence.
She gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N40,000.
Drenkat also ordered the convict to pay N184,000 as compensation.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Patrick Williams told the court that the case was reported on Jan.2 , at the ‘B’ Division Police station by Ms Pheobe Jatau, Margaret Yohanna and Esther Alexander all of Bukuru who are the complainants.
The prosecutor said that the convict deceived the complainants into giving her N177,000 to buy yams and rice.
The offence, he said, is punishable under sections 29 and 307 of the Plateau Penal Code Law.
(NAN)