KUCHING: At the Sessions Court on Friday (May 19), a man was sentenced to eight years in prison and given four strokes of the cane for sexually assaulting his eight-year-old grandniece. The 44-year-old defendant, employed as a plantation worker in Simunjan, pleaded guilty to two charges presented before Judge Maris
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here yesterday sentenced a man to five years’ imprisonment and 13 strokes of the cane for possessing syabu in front of an open-air eatery in November last year. The accused, Chang Bui Ping, 44, had pleaded guilty to two charges read before Magistrate Musli Abdul Hamid.
KUCHING: The High Court here struck out the prosecution’s appeal against a Sessions Court’s decision to discharge and acquit a primary school teacher of committing sexual assault and gross indecency against a 12-year-old male student in 2019. Judge Datuk Zaleha Rose Pandin made the order after Deputy Public Prosecutor Aida
KUCHING: A labourer was fined RM1,800 in default four months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today (May 12) for stealing a fan. Azizul, 36, pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 414 of the Penal Code which was read by an interpreter in front of Magistrate Zaiton Anuar. He
KUCHING: Five men were each fined RM700 in default one month’s jail by the Magistrate Court here today (May 12) for causing a violent brawl last March. Norzaimi, 29, Mukhris, 21, Aloysius 24, Razali, 22, and Ozzy, 31, all pleaded guilty to the charge read before Magistrate Zaiton Anuar. They
KUCHING: A teenager was ordered to Henry Gurney School for three years by the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday after he pleaded guilty to being involved in drug abuse activities in February. Magistrate Zaiton Anuar made the ruling on the 15-year-old offender after hearing a moral report from the Social Welfare
KUCHING: Three men were each sentenced to three years in prison by the Sessions Court here for robbing a 24-hour convenience store of RM3,273 in cash, in February last year. Mohd Amirul Husini (29), Kamal Abak (30) and Reynolds Cassey Julong Patrick (23), each pleaded guilty to one charge read
KUCHING: A labourer was sentenced to seven months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court here on today (May 11) for breaking into a house and stealing a pair of sports shoes. Senior Assistant Court Registrar sitting as First Class Magistrate, Sandy Yvette Freddy sentenced Mohd Azlan Liza, 34, from Kampung
KUCHING: The High Court here yesterday ordered a teenage boy be sent to the Henry Gurney School, Puncak Borneo after he was found guilty of distributing methamphetamine drug weighing 76.57g in an oil palm plantation at Kampung Bitokan, two years ago. The 19-year-old had pleaded guilty before Judicial Commissioner Alexander
KUCHING: A father of two was fined RM8,000, in default eight months jail, by the Sessions Court here yesterday, for entering the Dered Krian National Park in Bau and taking geological materials in the form gold ores, in April 2021. Kuan Boon Lung, 23, pleaded guilty to two charges before
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