A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced a 32-year-old teacher, Godwin Lawrence, to one-month imprisonment for mischief.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict an option of N5,000 fine.
He also ordered him to pay N15,000 as compensation to the nominal complainant.
Sadiq advised the convict to desist from committing crimes, adding that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other offenders.
Lawrence, who resides at Karmo village, was convicted on a count charge.
The convict, who pleaded guilty to the charge, urged the court to temper justice with mercy that he acted out of ignorance.
The prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, had told the court that one Isiaka Adama, of same address with the convict, reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on Aug. 25.
Auhioboh said that the convict on that same date was walking on the main road, the complainant horned several times but he refused to move.
He started insulting him and broke the front wind screen of the complainant’s car valued at N15, 000.
During the Police investigation, he confessed to the crime and begged for mercy.
The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under Section 327 of the Penal Code.
