The Suva High court today sentenced a 20 year old man to four years imprisonment after he was found guilty of four counts of robbery with violence, unlawful use of motor vehicle, driving motor vehicle without a driving license and driving motor vehicle in contravention of the 3rd Party Policy Risk.

Demesi Oba hired a taxi with another accomplice and upon reaching Yohan place Bayview Heights, they pulled the driver out of the taxi and Oba drove away with and later handed the taxi to a youth in Wailoku. Oba also took taxi meter valued at $270 and the amplifier valued at $400 out of the taxi.

Oba was sentenced to imprisonment for first and second count, and fined for counts three and four to be served concurrently.

Meanwhile, a former Court officer has been sent to jail for eight months and fined a total of four hundred dollars after the Suva High Court found him guilty of bribery.

High Court Judge, Justice Prinyantha Fernando while sentencing Niraj Singh this afternoon, reminded him that his actions gave the impression that the public needed to bribe public officers in order for them to have their grievances heard.

On the 22nd of September last year, Singh told a lady that if she wanted her case to be heard faster or earlier, she had to pay him $100 in addition to the Court fees that she had already paid.

Singh was arrested by FICAC three days later when he had a meeting with the complainant to take the money from her.