Man sent to jail for stealing body lotion

A newly married 25-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to two years in jail after admitting to shoplifting two bottles of body lotion worth Sh780.

Joseph Omwiri Omwoyo confessed to stealing the body lotion at a supermarket in Nairobi on the 6th of this month.

In his defence, Omwoyo, who was before Milimani Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo, told the court that he had just gotten married but was unemployed and lacked money to maintain his new bride.

Ogembo sentenced him without the cash fine alternative on grounds that he had previously been charged with a similar offence hence he is a serial offender.