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A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 120 hours of community service by an Abule-Egba Magistrate Court in Lagos after pleading guilty to pouring acid on three people.
The prosecutor told the court that the offence was committed on Nov. 11,2012 at Ajasa Command, Ipaja, Lagos.
“The complainants and defendant engaged in a street fight and the defendant poured a liquid substance suspected to be acid on the complainants,” he said.
According to the Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, the defendant, John Adetokunbo, would have been sentenced to a minimum of 18 months imprisonment without an option of fine, but the fact that the defendant made a welfare arrangement for the complainants, was a mitigating factor in the sentence. “Therefore, the defendant is sentenced to 120 hours of community service to serve as deterrent to others,” he ruled.
Arraigned on Jan. 9, the suspect earlier pleaded not guilty and granted bail at N100,000, with two sureties in like sum, but he later changed his plea and said he was guilty of the offence.