Court adjourns appeal in vehicle theft case

Manama : The Second Higher Criminal Court (Appeals) has adjourned until Tuesday the appeal of a defendant who was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for stealing a vehicle and selling it at the scrap yard.

The man was found guilty of stealing a Bahraini citizen’s vehicle from Hamad Town and selling it to the scrap yard in Askar for BD90. However, he was acquitted of the charges of damaging the vehicle.

Court files showed that victim had taken her vehicle to an auto garage near Souq Waqef area in Hamad Town to get it fixed. Two days later, the man in charge of the garage informed her that the car was stolen from the spot where it was parked in the vicinity of the garage. She immediately reported the case to the nearest police station, which launched a probe.

The prosecutors told that surveillance camera footage showed the suspect, along with another man, towing the vehicle onto a wrecker and taking it away from the spot where it was parked (near the garage) by 2am on the night of the incident.

The victim’s husband, who was on a random visit to the scrap yard in Askar, recognised his wife’s stolen car. When the husband approached the owner of the yard, the latter informed that a man sold it to him for BD90 and that he has a copy of his identity card. The husband gave the information to the police who arrested the suspect, interrogated him and referred to the Public Prosecution.