HOTEL owners and other residents at
Sinza had all reasons to smile yesterday when the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s
Court in Dar es Salaam sentenced three notorious criminals to a total of 90
years in jail for armed robbery.
The convicts are
Emmanuel Mosha, Elisha Mollel and Yasin Monday, alias Chale, whom the
prosecution described as persons who have been posing as customers and rent
some rooms in hotels, but at midnight turned into criminals and robbed genuine
customers of their belongings.
Principal Resident
Magistrate Wilbard Mashauri convicted the three of the offence and ordered each
to remain behind bars for 30 years. He said that the court was satisfied by
evidence produced by six prosecution witnesses.
The magistrate ruled
that the prosecution sufficiently proved its case beyond reasonable doubts as
required in criminal cases that indeed the three accused persons committed the
offence they were charged with.
During motivations after
being convicted of the offence, the accused had requested the court for mercy,
alleging that it was the first time for them to be convicted of criminal
offences.
However, the prosecution
led by State Attorney Adolf Mkini, sought a severe punishment to the convicts
considering that the offence under which they were found guilty was serious and
that it falls under the Minimum Sentence Act.
The court heard that the
three stole at gun point 470,000/- in cash, and prepaid airtime vouchers of
Airtel, Tigo and Vodacom, valued at 1,135,000/-, all valued at 1,605,000/-, the
property of the hotel.
Immediately, before and
after such stealing they threatened one Happiness Msuman in order to obtain and
retain the said items.
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