KUCHING: A 21-year-old man was fined RM5,000 or sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrate’s Court today for threatening to distribute explicit photos and videos of his female acquaintance after she failed to reply to his WhatsApp messages. The man, who works for a car rental company, pleaded guilty
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a mechanic RM5,000 in default 14 months in prison for deliberately damaging his ex-girlfriend’s Perodua Aruz vehicle last Saturday. Boon Soon Fok, 26, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan after the charge was read to him by a court interpreter. He was
KUCHING: Two Form One boys pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court here for bullying a female classmate by making criminal threats to stab her 300 times and threatening to have others rape her. In addition, one of the boys also intentionally injured the victim by throwing a correction tape at
SERIAN: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a student management assistant RM9,000, in default 24 months in prison, for possessing 98 obscene materials believed to be child pornography. Mohammad Azlan, 47, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Razali to two charges under Section 292 of the Penal Code. Upon conviction, the
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here sentenced two foreigners to two years in prison each for possessing counterfeit banknotes amounting to RM138,920. Wawan Riduanto, 31, a farmer, and Emi Diansari, 37, a cook, each pleaded guilty before Judge Musli Abdul Hamid to one charge under Section 489C of the Penal Code,
KUCHING: A boarding school warden has been sentenced to 15 years in jail and 10 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old male student. Judge Musli Abdul Hamid handed down the sentence on the 42-year-old after the prosecution successfully
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here fined a local man RM5,000 in default 10 months in prison for molesting a young woman by groping her buttocks in front of a private hospital. Muhammad Irfan, 23, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan to the charge under Section 354 of the
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here sentenced two men to 10 months in prison each for breaking into a catering services company’s office last month. Mohamad Farizull Sofian, 22, and Adzrul Zulkarnain Ariffin, 27, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan to a joint charge under Section 457 of the Penal
KUCHING: A local man was fined RM500, in default one month in prison, for stealing canned food and sauces from a supermarket last week. Phil Stephen, 46, from Batu Kawa, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Radzali to a charge of theft framed under Section 380 of the Penal Code.
KUCHING: The High Court here has sentenced a former storekeeper to six months’ jail after allowing the prosecution’s appeal against his earlier fine for insulting the modesty of a co-worker by secretly placing a hidden camera in a company toilet. Justice Leonard David Shim imposed the custodial sentence on Toh
