A 20-YEAR-OLD man from Mkoba 6 suburb, Gweru has been fined $84 for shoplifting a knife and a teaspoon from a leading supermarket.

Obert Sibanda pleaded guilty to one count for shoplifting before magistrate, Ms Beaulity Dube.

Sibanda told the court that he had peanut butter which he wanted to spread on his loaf of bread but didn’t have a kitchen knife to cut it and a teaspoon to spread the peanut butter.
Ms Dube fined him $84 failure to which he will be imprisoned for one month.

“I stole the kitchen knife and teaspoon because I wanted to cut the bread I had bought and use the teaspoon to spread peanut butter on the bread,” said Sibanda.

It was the State case that on March 25 at Pick n Pay Supermarket in Gweru, Sibanda was seen on the CCTV placing the kitchen knife, torch with batteries and teaspoon into his pants.

The court heard that he passed through the till points without paying and was arrested after going out of the supermarket.State media