Travel scam earns man 198 months, 16 lashes
KUCHING: A 34-year-old man was handed a staggering 198 months in prison and 16 lashes of the cane as penalty for 16 counts of scamming people with travel packages to various countries. Mohd Aszlan Mat Muda pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to all of the charges framed under Section 420 of the […]
Drug couple may face rotan and jail
KUCHING: A couple faces the possibility of being canned up to nine lashes and not more than five years’ jail each if convicted for drug possession. If convicted under Section 39A (1), the suspects can be sentenced to a jail term up to five years and whipping up to nine lashes. They were arrested for […]
Eight years’ jail, four lashes each for robbing housewife
KUCHING: Two Indonesian men were sentenced to eight years’ jail and four lashes each today (25 May) after pleading guilty to robbing a housewife while armed with a meat cleaver. The Section court judge ordered Dandi Adytia Firnanda, 22, and Romi, 21, to be sentenced after they pleaded guilty under Section 395 of the […]
Robbers’ sentences reduced to 13 years’ jail, six lashes
KUCHING: Two inmates, who have been sentenced to 18 years’ jail and six lashes of the cane for robbery, have their penalties reduced to 13 years in prison and six lashes yesterday (Mar 22). In their appeal Mohamad Hasrul Seliman from Kampung Tanjung Pisang, Simunjan and Mohd Kamarul Wahab from Kampung Tabuan Lot argued that […]
