US gynaecologist gets 20 years for sexually abusing patients
NEW YORK: A Manhattan judge on Tuesday sentenced a “prolific, heinous and predatory” ex-Columbia University gynecologist, Robert Hadden, to 20 years in federal prison, doling out the maximum justice decades after he began abusing his patients and seven years after he avoided jail time, reported German news agency (dpa). Citing Hadden’s “out of control” and “depraved” […]
Man gets two-year prison term and caning for drugs
KUCHING: A man was sentenced to two years in prison, three strokes of the cane, and fined RM3,000 by the Magistrates’ Court here. He pleaded guilty to charges of possessing 9.09g of methamphetamine and involvement in drug abuse activities. Afis, 30, appeared before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi on Friday (July 14), where he admitted to the […]
Elderly men prone to committing rape
HARARE: A large number of elderly men found in prison during the first quarter of the year had committed rape crimes, among other sexual offences, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat). In its 2023 Quarterly Prison Admissions and Discharges Statistics from the beginning of the year to March, ZimStat said figures provided by […]
Man sentenced for damaging property
KUCHING: A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to a fine of RM2,000 or four months in prison by the Magistrate’s Court today (June 9) for causing damage to his mother’s property using a machete. Azam pleaded guilty to two charges under Section 427 of the Penal Code, which were read before Magistrate Zubaidah Sharkawi. The […]
Man gets seven days’ jail for assaulting female driver
TAPAH: The Tapah Magistrate’s Court today sentenced a man who assaulted a female driver in an incident in Lata Iskandar, which went viral last Monday, to seven days in prison. Magistrate Siti Hanum Mohmad Sah meted out the sentence after Mohammad Zaim Faiz Tarmizi, 29, who was unrepresented, pleaded guilty to the two charges against […]
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 […]
Innocent US man freed after 3 decades in prison
LOS ANGELES: A Baldwin Park man was freed from state prison earlier this month after prosecutors and parole officials uncovered years-old evidence that pointed to his innocence in a 1989 shooting, officials announced Friday, reported German news agency (dpa). Daniel Saldana, 55, was sentenced to 45 years to life in prison in 1990. He had […]
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 gets eight months in prison for housebreaking, theft
KUCHING: A 34-year-old man was sentenced to eight months in prison by the Magistrates’ Court here for breaking into a house and stealing four bags. Azlan pleaded guilty on Monday (May 8) to a charge under Section 457 of the Penal Code, which was read by an interpreter before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali. […]
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 […]
