KUCHING: A former student of Henry Gurney School pleaded guilty after being charged at the Magistrates’ Court here with making a criminal threat to burn down his father’s house. The 20-year-old defendant appeared before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan on Wednesday (Aug 9) as charges under Section 506 of the
KUCHING: The Magistrates Court here today sentenced a local man to two years in prison and three strokes of the cane for possessing 25.12g of methamphetamine. Chua Zhi Yik, 26, from Landeh, pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah
KUCHING: A female cook was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday for allegedly reaching into a woman’s handbag and taking her iPhone 14 Pro Max during the Kuching Food Festival 2023 earlier this August. Marani Rais, 50, pleaded not guilty to a charge under Section 379 of the Penal
KUCHING: A man was sentenced to 12 months’ jail by the Sessions Court for trying to get free fuel and threatening to burn down a petrol station with a lighter if his request was not met. Syafiq Fadhullah Hussaini, 32, pleaded guilty to the charge read by an interpreter before
KUCHING: A 27-year-old man from Kampung Lada Pedas has been fined RM1,500 or sentenced to three months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court here. Mohd Nawawiee Abu Bakar pleaded guilty on Wednesday (Aug 2) to the charge of stealing three rolls of electrical cables belonging to Telekom Malaysia in Jalan
KUCHING: A 32-year-old local man, Mohd Faizal Razali, was sentenced to six months in prison for breaking into a construction company and causing intentional damage to the construction site along Jalan Sultan Tengah. He pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 457 of the Penal Code read before Magistrate Syarifah
KUCHING: A man was fined RM1,000 or sentenced to two months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court here today for punching his colleague’s face out of dissatisfaction with his colleague always being assigned work by their employer. Achin Piul, 51, pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 323 of the
KUCHING: An unemployed man was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Magistrate’s Court here today for breaking into the rented house by prying open the door using a screwdriver, last July. Sharfiqh Masri Reduan, 31, from Kampung Tupong Ulu, pleaded guilty to a charge read in front of
KUCHING: A trader has been fined RM2,000 or sentenced to three months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (Aug 1) for making criminal threats against another trader. The incident occurred due to the defendant’s dissatisfaction with the female victim’s statement, claiming that his mother made defamatory remarks in
KOTA SAMARAHAN: The Sessions Court here sentenced three friends to 12 years in prison for deliberately setting fire to a house belonging to a woman in a case involving a foreign unlicensed moneylender (ah long). Alexander Kimpin, Nelson Ajau and Then Shaw Nam each pleaded guilty before Judge Iris Awen
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