Errant foreigners jailed 25 months each
BINTULU: Seven foreigners were each sentenced to 25 months in jail after they pleaded guilty to intruding, stealing and damaging some items and equipment at an unmanned platform on May 19. Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Bintulu Zone director Captain Maritime Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad in a statement, said all the accused pleaded guilty during […]
Labourer gets 8 years jail
SIBU: An amorous labourer who caused grievous hurt to a 30-year-old woman will have to spend eight years behind bars. And that’s not all, he will also receive three lashes of the cane. The Kapit Sessions Court imposed the sentence on the accused. Sibu-based Sessions Court Judge Marutin Pagan, who was presiding over the case, […]
Court upholds fine for defaming ex-YB
KUCHING: The High Court today upheld a lower court’s decision to fine a salesman who had used the profile name ‘Hui Tai Lang’ on Facebook to defame former Padungan assemblyman Wong King Wei. High Court Judge Datuk Azhahari Kamal Ramli agreed with the Magistrate’s Court’s decision to fine Chin Siaw Hong, 53, a sum of […]
Two years’ imprisonment for housebreaking and theft
SIBU: The Magistrates’ Court here today sentenced a man to two years’ imprisonment for housebreaking and theft. Shayrul, from Kampung Nangka pleaded guilty to two charges before magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar, who ordered the sentences to run concurrently. The accused was charged with breaking into a house in Jalan Lucky, an offence under Section 457 of […]
Fine for man who filmed colleague in toilet
KUCHING: A company employee was fined RM3,500 here today for keeping a picture of a woman colleague urinating in a toilet three years ago. Ling How Tze, 31, who works in the accounts division of the company, pleaded guilty to the charge read out before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi. He was charged under Section 292 (a) […]
Court fines woman for online scam
SIBU: A 25-year-old woman was fined RM500, in default seven days’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court today for possession of more than RM23,000 which was unlawfully obtained. Magistrate Mohd Syukri Mokhtar handed the sentence after Julien Anggit from Serian pleaded guilty. She was found in possession of RM23,663.28 which was unlawfully obtained at a house […]
Man pleads guilty to drug abuse, gets two months
KUCHING: A 44-year-old man was sentenced to two months in prison by the Magistrate’s Court after pleading guilty to drug abuse activities. Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi passed sentence on Zaidel Ibrahim from Kampung Lintang after a charge was read out in front of him. The court ordered the accused to serve his jail term starting Wednesday […]
Vietnamese woman pleads guilty to prostitution
KUCHING: A Vietnamese woman was fined RM2,800, in default three months jail, by the Magistrate’s Court here today for prostitution. Le Thi Kim Mo, 32, pleaded guilty after the charge was read out by an interpreter in front of magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali. According to the charge, Le was charged under Section 372B […]
Fined RM2.5k for damaging car
KUCHING: A man was fined RM2,500, in default three months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court here today for damaging a car. Lu Chuan Yuan, 51, pleaded guilty to the charge read to him by an interpreter before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali. Lu was charged with causing damage to a Mitsubishi Mirage vehicle belonging […]
People smugglers sent to jail
KUCHING: Four local men aged from 27 to 31 were sent to prison by the High Court after they pleaded guilty to smuggling 17 Indonesian migrants into the country last January. Judicial Commissioner Alexander Siew How Wai today sentenced Mohamad Hadi Abdul Karim Boon, 30, and Fery Alam, 31, to three years in prison. Fellow […]
