Man Jailed 4 Years For Stealing, Threatening And Raping Female Neighbour. - Crime

An Abuja Upper Area Court sitting in Jiwa, on Monday, sentenced a 27-year-old man to four years imprisonment for raping his female neighbour at Gwagwa police barracks and threatening to kill her.
Gwagwa is a popular Abuja suburb in Abuja Municipal Area Council.
The police at Gwagwa division had arraigned the suspect before the court on a five count charge of criminal trespass, house breaking, theft, rape and criminal intimidation contrary to sections 342, 347, 288, 282, and 396 of the Penal Code.
The prosecutor, Lawrence Alu, told the court that the suspect, one Monday Michael, a resident of police barracks, Gwagwa, was on March 19 reported to the division by one of his neighbours.
The prosecutor added that the suspect was said to have sneaked into a lady’s room close to his compound around 1 a.m.
He said the woman, who left the door of her room open due to the hot weather, was grabbed by her neck by the suspect, who dragged her to a nearby uncompleted building where he raped her.
“You equally stole her Techno handset and her N4,200. During police investigation, the phone was recovered in your possession and while you were being taken to the police station, you intimidated her that if you come out of the police cell, you would kill her,’’ the prosecutor said.
When the five charges were read to him, he pleaded guilty and judge Muhammad Lawal Munir sentenced him to two years imprisonment with an option of N30,000 fine for rape charge and six months’ imprisonment with an option of N5,000 fines on each of the four other charges.