Magistrate Pa Harry Jammeh of the Brikama Magistrates Court, yesterday, sentenced and fined three youths in the persons of Abbas Jarju, Ebrima-Sori Camara and Essa Ndafe to pay the sum of D10, 000, each, in default to serve two years imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to charges of dealing in fake gold dust, which contravenes Section 344 Cap 10 Volume 3 of the Criminal Procedure Code of The Gambia.

The defence counsel of the convicts, Lawyer Camara, made a lengthy plea of mitigation for his clients and urged the court not to inflict custodial sentences on the convicts, considering the fact that they had been in remand for some time. “I will finally urge this honourable court to please impose a pecuniary fine on them,” he pleaded.
The presiding magistrate then sentenced the convicts accordingly.