A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to charges of stealing six pairs of shoes from his father.
Emmanuel Jesse Kyenze pleaded guilty when he appeared before Mombasa Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku on Tuesday.
The court heard that Kyenze had stolen the pair of shoes to pay his sister’s rent which was in arrears.
He informed the court that he committed the offence after his parents declined to assist his sister to pay her rent.
“It is true l stole the two pairs of shoes and l intended to sell them to pay my sister’s rent,” he told the court.
The charges read that on diverse dates of April 2023 and August 2023 at Vijiweni area in Likoni sub-county within Mombasa county stole five pairs of school boots valued at Ksh10,000 belonging to reverend Francis Kibue Kyenze.
He was further slapped with a second count of, handling stolen boots.
The particulars being that on August 11 this year at Vijiweni area Likoni sub-county Mombasa county otherwise than in the course of stealing dishonestly retained one pair of the school boots for his personal use and an empty shoe carton valued at Ksh3,500 knowingly or having reason to believe it’s to be stolen good.
Mutuku directed the matter to be mentioned tomorrow for sentencing.
