SRI AMAN: A 22-year-old man was fined RM15,000, in default 12 months’ imprisonment, by the Magistrates’ Court here today after admitting to acting as a mule account holder for an online scam syndicate that impersonates police officers. Alistair Nigel, from Stampin, Kuching, pleaded guilty to a charge read before Magistrate
KUCHING: The Sessions Court today sentenced a 36-year-old man to 21 years in prison and six strokes of the cane for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. The accused, Augustine Carlebim, pleaded guilty to a charge read before Judge Iris Awen Jon. The incident occurred after the child was abducted from
KUCHING: A sexagenarian was sentenced to 42 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here today for molesting two sisters, his neighbours, at a village house in Petra Jaya on March 2. Salleh Jolhi, 69, a general labourer with six children, pleaded guilty to two charges read before two different magistrates.
KUCHING: A university student was sentenced to 15 years in prison and five strokes of the cane for raping his younger sister, resulting in her becoming pregnant and giving birth to a baby boy. The 25-year-old accused, a final-semester Bachelor of Science student, pleaded guilty to a single charge read
KUCHING: A teenager was ordered to be sent to Henry Gurney School for three years by the Magistrates’ Court for raping a madrasah schoolgirl in August last year. Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan made the order after hearing the moral report on the 17-year-old from the Social Welfare Department (JKM)
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here today (Feb 12) sentenced a man to a one-month prison term, in default of a RM1,000 fine, for stealing 150 aluminium poles belonging to an organiser and event management company in Demak Laut in November last year. Muhammad Hanafi Hazmi, 34, a former employee of
KUCHING: A 35-year-old man who vandalised the pillars of a surau with green paint in Kampung Sungai Bedil Besar last January was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here today (Feb 12). Mohammad Hafifi pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 427 of the Penal Code for
KUCHING: A man who admitted to tearing and scattering several pages of the holy Quran onto a roadway after allegedly hearing whispers from the devil was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court today. Mohamad Jais Yusuf, 57, pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 295 of the
KUCHING: A man was fined RM3,500 in default 14 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court here today for damaging property at his mother’s house, causing losses of RM300, on Tuesday. Mahathir Norseman, 29, pleaded guilty to a charge read before Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan. He was charged under Section 427
KUCHING: Two accomplices were each sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court today for breaking into a restaurant and stealing a cash register and a donation box early this January. Mohd Asfia Bakar, 33, and Bathrim Haini, 28, both pleaded guilty when a joint charge was read before