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MAGISTRATE PETER GOGRA JAILED MAN FOR SOLAR BATTERY.

By: Sahr J. Bangah

At a jam-packed court yesterday presided over by magistrate Peter Brima Gogra, the accused Ibrahim Mansaray, aged nineteen (19) years old was arraigned before him for the offence of Larceny, Unlawful Possession and Receiving contrary to law.

According to the complainant, Zakaria Bangura, he informed the court that on the 5th January 2020 at IDA quarters along Teko road in Makeni, he saw three unidentified persons including the accused who was climbing a solar light pole and immediately he decided to come to the scene of crime to known what the accused persons were doing at the street solar light panel.

He continued that immediately he approached the scene, he saw the three unidentified men running away and when he pointed his touch light at the street pole he saw Ibrahim Mansaray now accused removing the street solar light battery.

He concluded that he shouted at the accused Ibrahim Mansaray who had no alternative but to jump and wanted to go in to thin air when he grabbed him and during the struggled other neighbors came and helped him to arrest the accused.

The accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months imprisonment while the exhibits were ordered by court to be handed over to Makeni City Council.

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