| Fadley Faisal |

THE Magistrate’s Court yesterday handed a nine-month prison sentence to a local man for stealing manhole covers belonging to TelBru from roadsides.

Magistrate Dewi Norlelawati binti Haji Abdul Hamid heard from Deputy Public Prosecutor Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali that Khairul Eady bin Yahya, 27, had stolen eight manhole covers from Jalan Wasai Limuru in RPN Kampong Tanah Jambu, sometime in January this year.

That same month, the defendant stole four more manhole covers from Kampong Kapok.

He then stole another three manhole covers from Kampong Tanjung Bunut on the afternoon of March 12.

The defendant sold some of the covers to a scrapyard. He left the rest lying outside the scrapyard, when he found it closed.

Police launched investigations into missing manhole covers, which led to the defendant’s arrest.