A Kado Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced a 44-year-old woman, Veronica Anum, to eight months imprisonment for criminal breach of trust and cheating.
The presiding judge, Alhaji, Ahmed Ado, however, gave the woman an option to pay a fine of N4,000 and warned her to desist from committing crimes.
Ado said the sentence would serve as deterrent to other would be offenders.
He also ordered her to pay N29,000 as compensation to the nominal complainant.
Anum, an apprentice and resident of Global Estate, Abuja, was convicted on a two-count charge of cheating and breach of trust.
The convict begged the court to temper justice with mercy because she did not know that the person did not send the money.
Prosecutor Zannah Dalhatu had told the court that Chika Abia of Karmo, Abuja, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police Station, Abuja, on March 2.
Dalhatu said the complainant told the police that the convict on December 13, 2016 approached him for his account details to enable her friend send her money.
NAN
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