By: Audrey Raymonda John
Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Court No.1 on Tuesday 2nd May, 2023 sentenced one Claudius Roberts, 22, to six months imprisonment after pleading guilty of damaging Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) billboards.
The accused appeared before the court for one count offence of malicious damage contrary to Section 51 of the malicious damage Act of 1861.
According to the particulars of offence, on Sunday 2nd April, 2023 along Main Motor Road, Brookfields in Freetown, the accused maliciously damaged four (4) pieces of Billboards each value at NLe1,500/00 (one thousand five hundred new notes), all total valued at NLe6,000/00 ( six thousand new notes) property of SLPP.
Abstract report on the police file indicated that on Tuesday 4th April, 2023 at 11:50 hours at Sanders Drive, Fayia Corner, Brookfields, Freetown, Dauda Kamara of No.8 Main Motor Road Brookfields arrested the said accused of No.2 Sanders Drive and reported him for committing the aforesaid crime.