Cat-flinging-case suspect should face harsher penalty – rights group

KUCHING: An animal rights group expressed disappointment that a man charged with flinging cats from a 15th story apartment in Petaling Jaya was not prosecuted under a stricter penalty. According to the Lawyers for Animal Rights group, the suspect ought to have faced charges in accordance with the Animal Welfare Act 2015 rather than the […]

Breaking plates act leads to RM1k fine

KUCHING: A local man who pleaded guilty to damaging plates belonging to his own father today was fined RM1,000 or a month’s jail. Magistrate Zaiton Anuar ordered the 25-year-old man from Taman Mesra, Jalan Bako to be fined after pleading guilty under Section 427 of the Penal Code. The accused admitted to breaking two plates […]