A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Monday sentenced a 35-year-old seamstress, Martina Felix, to five months imprisonment for absconding with her customer’s fabrics.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Felix, a resident of Kudenden in Kaduna, after she pleaded guilty to a two-count of criminal breach of trust and cheating.
Emmanuel, however, gave the convict an option to pay N5, 000 fine.
He ordered the convict to pay additional N33, 000 as damages for the materials and another N15, 000 for expenses incurred during her prosecution.
Emmanuel said the convict would get additional one-month imprisonment if she defaulted in her payments.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Chidi Leo, had told the court that Mercy John of Nasarawa in Kaduna State, reported the case at the Kudenden Police Station in Kaduna on Oct. 12.
Leo said the complainant gave the accused some fabrics to sew in March which she failed to sew.
“The accused did not make the clothes as agreed and all effort to get the fabrics from her proved abortive.
“Felix absconded with the fabrics to an unknown destination until she was seen and arrested,” he said.
Leo said the offence contravened Sections 217 and 292 of the Criminal Law of Kaduna State, 2017. (NAN)