A Tinubu
(Lagos) Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a 19-year-old man, Stephen John,
in prison for stealing N31,000 offering from a Catholic Church.
The
Magistrate, Mrs. F.O. Ikobayo. said John should be remanded in Ikoyi prison
after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, breaking, entry
and stealing.
She adjourned
the case to December 2 for facts and sentencing.
Earlier, the
prosecutor, Inspector Nurudeen Thomas, had told the court that the accused
committed the offence on November 16 at about 11p.m in a Catholic Church at
Elegbata, Apongbon area of Lagos.
He said that
John and two others, who are still at large, broke into the church and stole
N31,000, church offering.
“He was caught
by a security guard, while the others escaped,’’ he said; adding that the
offences contravened sections 285, 305 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State, 2011.
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