BY ROMINAH FAKA
The Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a man to six months’ imprisonment, with the sentence wholly suspended for one year.
Noris Dixion’s sentence was delivered on Monday, July 21, 2025 by Magistrate Pauline Smith Taroimae.
The sentence was wholly suspended because the mobile phone was recovered by police and returned to its rightful owner.
Dixion was charged with one count of simple larceny contrary to section 261 of the Penal Code.
He was working as a security guard at Hammock Beach at the time of the incident.
According to facts from the court, on October 26, 2024, the complainant and her friends were drinking at Hammock Beach until around 2.30am.
Upon returning to Honiara, the complainant realised that she had left her Samsung S8 phone behind.
Dixion, a security guard at the beach, found the phone and kept it in the guard house, hoping the owner would return.
After three days without contact, he took the phone to his village in Kakabona and kept it for another three weeks.
He later had it unlocked at Quick Time Shop.
Dixion was eventually arrested, admitted to possessing the phone, and handed it over to police, who returned it to the complainant.
The Police Prosecution Department prosecuted the case, while Thompson Fiuga acts for Dixion.
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