{"id":14895,"date":"2024-02-01T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-sentences-man-to-one-year-imprisonment-over-n200000-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:03:22","slug":"court-sentences-man-to-one-year-imprisonment-over-n200000-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-sentences-man-to-one-year-imprisonment-over-n200000-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Court sentences man to one year imprisonment over N200,000 fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Tinubu Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Rasheed Adewole, to one-year imprisonment, for allegedly defrauding a man of N200,000<\/p>\n<p>The convict pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering Judgment, Magistrate Mrs A.T Omoyele held that she convicted and sentenced the suspect based on his plea of guilty to the offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the facts of this case, confirmed reports and the plea for leniency, I hereby sentence you to one month in prison without an option of fine,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the convict, of no fixed address, was arraigned on January 30, on a charge of fraud and stealing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, rhe prosecutor, Insp Koti Aondohemba, informed the court that Adewole committed the offence between November 2023 and January at Victoria Island, Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>Aondohemba said that the convict obtained the money on the pretext of repairing the accident vehicle of Mr Temitope Akinbobola, who is the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said that Adewole requested for N200,000 for the job and was fully paid, but failed to do the job and converted the money to his use<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor noted that the sections contravened Section 314 and 287 (7) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Court sentences man to one year imprisonment over N200,000 fraud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tinubu Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday sentenced a 31-year-old man, Rasheed Adewole, to one-year imprisonment, for allegedly defrauding a man&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[135,387,180],"class_list":["post-14895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}