Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, convicted and sentenced two Nigerians to ten years imprisonment with hard labour.

The duo Peter Cole and Alieu Raphael were found guilty of obtaining money by false pretence and attempts to commit felony.

According to the particulars of the offence, on or about the 20th May, 2007 the two accused persons obtained $3,000 (about D78,000) from one Farimang Manneh on the pretext of supplying him with Armatext, but failed to do so.

The duo was also on the verge of collecting D13,500 from Abi Njie by on the pretext of providing her with a Tax Identifiction Number among other things but were arrested by the police at the Jimpex Junction in Kanifing.

Delivering his judgement, Maigstrate Richards told the court that all the prosecution witnesses have satisfied the court with their evidence against the two accused persons.

He therefore, convicted and sentenced the two to seven years in jail on count one and three years in jail on count two with hard labour.  Both sentences would run consecutively at the Janjangbureh Prisons in the Central River Region (CRR).