Five years for bid to kill cop
KUCHING: An unemployed man from Taman Hijrah, Bako near here has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for attempting to kill a policeman. Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali on Monday (June 21) ordered Mizi Mohamad, 24, to serve the sentence from the date of his arrest, May 31. However, the accused would only be […]
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 […]
Unfilial son gets RM6,000 fine or 14 months’ jail
KUCHING: An unemployed man was fined RM6,000 in default 14 months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today for disposing of several stolen items belonging to his father. Magistrate Zaiton Anuar ordered Abang Mohd Izwandi Abang Ahmad to pay a fine of RM3,000 in default seven months imprisonment for each charge against him under Section […]
Man who killed grandma over RM30 gets 12 years
KUCHING: An unemployed man, who killed his grandmother over RM30, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail by the Sessions Court here. Judge Afidah Abdul Rahman yesterday (June 15) ordered Azizan Zainal to serve his sentence from the date of his arrest, Sep 21, 2020. However, as the Prisons Department is currently under the movement control […]
China woman fined RM5k for prohibited acts
KUCHING: A woman from China was fined RM5,000 in default three months in jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today. Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali meted out the sentence on Huang Guiping after she pleaded guilty to carrying out prohibited activities. The accused, 37, was charged under Section 22(b) of the Prevention and Control […]
18 months’ jail, whipping for grievous hurt
KUCHING: An unemployed man, who was charged with injuring his neighbour with a helmet, was sentenced to 18 months’ jail and one stroke of the rotan by the Sessions Court yesterday. Judge Jason Juga meted out the sentence on Nickson Empeni after he pleaded guilty under Section 326 of the Penal Code. The court ordered […]
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 […]
Woman sentenced five years for drugs
KUCHING: A 21-year-old woman has been sentenced to five years imprisonment after pleading guilty to possessing 34.61g of methamphetamine. Sessions Court judge Maris Agan ordered Lisa Noorhayati Mohamad Yusuf to begin serving the sentence from Tuesday (May 4). For a second offence, the accused was fined RM2,000 or sentenced to four months imprisonment after pleading […]
Three months’ jail for overstaying
KUCHING: A foreign man, who pleaded guilty to overstaying, was sentenced to three months’ jail today (May 4). Kuching Sessions Court judge Maris Agan ordered 28-year-old Ilham to be jailed in Puncak Borneo prison after pleading guilty under Section 15 (1) (c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63. Ilham admitted to being in Malaysia illegally for […]
Jailed 21 months, fined RM146,000 for wildlife crimes
MIRI: Two Indonesian men were sentenced to 21 months’ jail and fined RM146,000 in default seven months’ jail by the Miri Sessions Court on Tuesday for possessing illegally 75 protected and wild birds. Judge Mohd Taufik Mohd alias Mohd Yusoff ordered the sentences to run concurrently from the date of their arrest. Accused, Mosekdi, 34, […]
