Teen foreigner fined RM10k for illegal online gambling activities
KUCHING: A teenage Indonesian was fined RM10,000 in default of one week’s jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today for involvement in operating an online gambling machine using a smartphone in a hut in Kampung Rampangi. The 16-year-old male accused pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 4B(a) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953, […]
Man jailed one day, fined RM500 for stealing flashlight
KUCHING: A local man was sentenced to one day in prison and fined RM500 by the Magistrate’s Court here today after pleading guilty to stealing a flashlight worth RM34.25 from a leading supermarket at Jalan Penrissen. The accused, Alan, 28, from Sibu, pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 380 of the Penal Code, before […]
Man gets one year’s imprisonment for intentionally damaging father’s car
KUCHING: A man has been sentenced to one year in prison by the Magistrates’ Court for intentionally damaging his father’s car by colliding with a parking pole in front of their house. The incident took place in May when the man became upset after losing a gambling game. Syaifuddin, 38, pleaded guilty on Friday (June […]
Visually impaired drug addict sentenced for assaulting wife in hospital ward
KUCHING: A visually impaired drug addict has been fined RM3,500 or faces eight months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court for assaulting his wife and making threats in the children’s ward of Sarawak General Hospital. Sa’adi, a 46-year-old labourer from Kampung Meranek, Kota Samarahan, pleaded guilty to the charges on Thursday (June 8). Under Section […]
Businessman gets jail, fine for assaulting wife
KUCHING: A businessman has been sentenced to two days in jail and fined RM2,000 by the Magistrates’ Court after head-butting and biting his wife during an argument in a car. The charges, under Sections 323 and 326A of the Penal Code, were read before Magistrate Zaiton Anuar on Thursday (June 8), to which Kuan, 52, […]
Jobless man gets six months for threatening his father
KUCHING: A 31-year-old unemployed man was sentenced to six months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court for threatening his father. Saiful pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 506 of the Penal Code, which was read before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali, on Monday (May 8). The accused committed the offence at a house […]
Man fined RM2k for mischief
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court on Monday (May 8) fined an unemployed man RM2,000, in default five months’ imprisonment, for committing mischief. The 34-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge read by an interpreter before Magistrate Zaition Anuar. Under Section 427 of the Penal Code, the accused could be imprisoned for up to five years or a […]
Man gets 10 months for possessing clozapine
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here sentenced an unemployed man to 10 months in prison for possessing 16.43g of the anti-psychotic drug clozapine, a scheduled poison, in his bedroom in June last year. Abbas, 23, pleaded guilty before Judge Afidah Abdul Rahman to a charge framed under Section 9(3) of the Poisons Act 1952, punishable under […]
Jail, whipping for habitual drug abuser
SIBU: The Sessions Court here yesterday (Thurs) sentenced a 38-year-old man to five years’ behind bars and a stroke of whipping for repeated drug substance abuse. Ismail from Kampung Datu Baru understood the consequences of pleading guilty to the charge when the nature of charge was read and explained to him through an interpreter. Presiding […]
Eight years’ jail, caning for slashing brother with machete
KUCHING: An unemployed man will celebrate his first Raya behind bars when he was sentenced to eight years in prison and three strokes of the cane by the Session Court here yesterday for causing serious injury to his elder brother by slashing him with a machete during a rampage last Saturday (April 15). Izzat, 31, […]
