Fugitive Convict Sentenced To 5 Years For Theft
By Fatima Sesay
Victor Koroma, a prisoner who was serving his sentence in prison but escaped during the November 26 2023 coup d’etat, was sentence to five years imprisonment by Magistrate Mustapha Brima Jah of Pademba Road court No.1 for stealing one Bajaj motor bike valued over thirty three thousand new Leones.
The Convict was before the court on a count charge of Larceny contrary to section 2 of the larceny Act of 1916.
The indictment states that the convict on Wednesday 20th August 2025 at Lumley in Freetown, Stole one Bajaj motorbike with registration number AXD 509 valued at thirty three thousand six hundred and eight Leones(33,608), property of Abu Marrah.
Convict Koroma had earlier pleaded guilty to the offense and further pleaded for justice to be tempered with mercy.
Magistrate Briama Jah, before sentencing him, said the convict has pleaded for mercy, but he would not give an alternative sentence and will impose a custodian sentence on him on the grounds that the convict is not a first time offender.
He said the convict has been in prison for a certain offence and was serving a jail term of eight years imprisonment, but escaped as a result of the prison break.
Magistrate Jah further stated that convict Koroma was on the run and they were looking for him but had not seen him until he committed this offence, for which he is standing trial before him.
Magistrate Briama Jah therefore sentenced him to five years imprisonment at the male correctional facility in Freetown and also ordered that he should continue his eight years imprisonment that was given to him at the High Court.
