Teenager gets 8 months in prison for attacking businessman with a macheteA Karshi Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced a teenager, Isa Sheriff, to eight months in prison for attacking a businessman with a machete. ‎The Judge, Anas Isah, sentenced Sheriff after he pleaded guilty to joint act, wrongful confinement to constrain to an illegal act, a criminal force without provocation and voluntary causing injury by dangerous means. Isah, who did not give the convict an option to pay a fine, ordered him to pay N10,000 in damages to the complainant. It has come to the notice of the court that Sheriff is a habitual criminal”, he said. Lawal said that the convict and his accomplices attacked the complainant with a machete, causing him grievous injury in the head and arm.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 21, 2019 14:25 UTC