Lady docked for arranging thugs to beat up man over missing phone
A 27-year-old hair stylist, Mary Sunday, was brought before a Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, with allegations that she caused a man to be beaten up for allegedly stealing her phone.
The police charged Ms Sunday with five counts of criminal conspiracy, force, assault, causing hurt and mischief.
The prosecution counsel, Abdullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant, Adeyemi Kolawole of Angwa Gede Gwagwalada, Abuja reported the matter at the police station on October 12.
Mr Tanko said that the defendant, had on October 4, accused the complainant of stealing her phone and later conspired with eight other boys, now at large, to beat him up.
He said that in the cause of the beating, his glasses worth N10,000 was broken and one of his front teeth fell out.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 96, 263, 264, 240 and 327 of the Penal Code.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The magistrate, Punarimam Balogun, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100, 000 with one surety in like sum.
Ms Balogun said that the surety must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must present means of identification.
She adjourned the case until November 17 for a hearing.
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