Housemaid Who Stole $5,000 Jailed For 13 Years

Payaro was found guilty of five counts bordering on conspiracy, burglary, entering and stealing.

A 28-year-old housemaid, Anna Payaro, has been sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment by a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court in Igbosere for burglary and theft of her employer’s $5,000.

The convict was first arraigned on June 6, 2016, and later re-arraigned on a substituted charge on November 22, 2016.

According to the prosecuting police officer, Sergeant Cyriacus Osuji, Payaro and her accomplices, who were still at large, conspired to commit the offences on May 27, 2016, on Goshen Estate, Lekki, Lagos.