KUCHING: The Sessions Court here sentenced an unemployed man to six years in prison and two lashes of the cane for robbing a convenience store in Padawan earlier this month. Mohd Amirulnizam Naruddin, 25, pleaded guilty before Judge Afidah Abdul Rahman to a charge under Section 395 of the Penal
KUCHING: The High Court here sentenced an Indonesian man to two years in prison for smuggling a fellow national into Sarawak via Jalan Biawak-Lundu in February. Judge Datuk Farid Gohim Abdullah meted out the sentence to 33-year-old Salim Jono after he pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 26J of
KUCHING: A lorry driver working for a courier company was fined RM3,000 in default seven months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here for retaining stolen computer equipment belonging to a customer. Alexander Jordan Annie Teresa, 24, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to a charge under Section 411
KUCHING: Two former civil servants heaved a sigh of relief when the High Court here dismissed the prosecution’s appeal to review a lower court’s penalty for illegal possession of turtle eggs. Judicial Commissioner Zaleha Mohd Yusuf Pan ruled that there were no valid grounds to interfere with the sentence previously
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here sentenced two men to 10 months in prison for retaining a stolen four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicle belonging to a 33-year-old woman. Royce Akong, 45, and Chung Chint Choy, 47, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to the charge under Section 411 of the Penal
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here sentenced a man to one year in prison for running amok and damaging property at his mother’s house in Jalan Sultan Tengah here earlier this year. Mohammad Nor Nasriq Ismail, 36, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali to a charge under Section
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here fined two local vendors RM1,400 in default five months in prison for assaulting another vendor during a misunderstanding last month. Dzul Mizal Asley Shah Abdullah, 25, and Samsul Wahed, 37, who both sell ‘apam balik’ (turnover pancake), pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here fined five men RM4,000 each, in default six months in prison, for possessing a stolen coil of cable belonging to Telekom Malaysia (TM). Claint Douglas Jerebi, 27; Martin Stahlmann, 33; Mohammad Affendy Ahmad, 26; Muhammad Zulfiqar Khan Hasnin, 26; and Roberto Rivenerya Chen Ronald, 21,
KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here fined an unemployed man RM7,000, in default 19 months in prison, for possessing 1.21 grammes (g) of methamphetamine and abusing drugs. Wee Ming, 34, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to two charges under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952. For the first charge,
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a local man RM1,500 in default five months in prison for punching an acquaintance out of anger over alleged slander. Rahmat, 44, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to a charge under Section 323 of the Penal Code, which carries a prison