2 friends get 1 year imprisonment each for defrauding another person of N700,000

A Karu Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced two friends to one year in prison each for defrauding another person of N700,000.

The Judge, Ishaq Hassan, however, gave the convicts an option of N45,000 fine each.

He also ordered them to pay the sum of N350,000 each as compensation and warned them to desist from committing crime.

The convicts, Jennifer Uche, 34, and Isaiah Oyelade, 42, who were of different addresses, had pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and cheating.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Olarewaju Osho, told the court that the complainant, Serah Friday, reported the matter at the Nyanya Police Station on Nov. 17.

“The complainant had alleged that the convicts approached her on June 20, to assist them by lending them the sum of N700,000 with agreement to refund the money in three months.