KUCHING: A teenage boy willingly lodged a false police report claiming that he was robbed by two men armed with an iron rod because he was afraid to be scolded by his father for damaging his mobile phone following a fight with his girlfriend. However, the action of the 18-year-old
KUCHING: A foreign labourer claimed trial before the Sessions Court here to a charge of raping a 13-year-old local girl until she became pregnant. The 26-year-old accused from Sambas, Indonesia pleaded not guilty to a charge under Section 376(1) of the Penal Code before Judge Maris Agan. According to the
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a local man RM1,300 for illegally possessing money amounting to RM1,300 in his personal account, which was used for Macau scam. The accused Mohd Eswandy Hasan, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi. According to the charges, the accused illegally possessed
KUCHING: A jobless man was sentenced to eight months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here for trespassing into an unoccupied house in April last year. Mahmud Muhi, 44, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi. He was accused of breaking into the house of a 47-year-old man in Jalan Ellis around
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here sentenced a jobless man to three months in jail for threatening to kill his own sister. This was due to dissatisfaction that his brother-in-law viralled a video of him stealing electric cables on Facebook. The accused Mohd Shamsul Ahat, 27, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Zaiton
KUCHING: A 44-year old man was fined RM3,000 and was sentenced to four months’ jail in default for allegedly throwing a stone at a dog which hit a neighbour’s vehicle window. The accused known as Rizal Mostapar pleaded guilty before Magistrate Sandy Yvette Freddy to a charge under Section 427
KUCHING: An Indonesian woman who was handed a stiff punishment for having three heads of the hornbill, a protected species, will now have a shorter stay in prison. Rosmili Sarmila will serve six months behind bars and also pay a lower fine of RM3,000 following her appeal to the High
KUCHING: A mechanic, 51, was fined RM5,000 by the Magistrates’ Court in default of five months’ jail for injuring a man with a baseball bat during a road rage incident on February 25. Magistrate Sandy Yvette Freddy sentenced the accused known as Chang Sze Ping, on his own guilty plea
KUCHING: The High Court set the date for the re-mention of the murder case of the four-year-old boy Eric Chang Wei Jie on April 6 pending the results of a forensic report. Wendy Chai Xue Zhen, 36, and Ling Kok Liang, 51, the couple who took care of the boy
KUCHING: An unemployed man was fined RM10,000 in default six months’ jail by the Sessions Court yesterday for entering the Dered Krian National Park, Bau and taking geological rocks in the form of raw gold two years ago. Cornelius Lukau, 30, pleaded guilty to two charges read by an interpreter
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