Quirky World ... Chocolate addict behind bars

COLOMBIA: A self-declared chocolate addict has been sentenced to five months in one of Colombia’s harshest prisons for swiping $8 (€5.90) worth of bars.

Quirky World ... Chocolate addict behind bars

Luis Augusto Mora was caught stealing two boxes of locally made Jumbo bars at a Bogota supermarket. After confessing, he was sentenced to La Picota prison, home to some of the country’s most hardened criminals.

The punishment has caught the attention of president Juan Manuel Santos. In a radio interview he said misdemeanours like Mora’s shouldn’t waste prosecutors’ time and effort.

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