KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here fined a cashier RM3,300, in default three weeks in prison, for illegally purchasing a public lottery ticket. Mina, 35, pleaded guilty before senior assistant registrar Abdurrahman Abrar Jarni to the charge under Section 9(1) of the Common Gaming Houses Act 1953. If convicted, she could
KUCHING: A local man was sentenced to six months’ jail for possessing a stolen smartphone which had been looted during a break-in at a perfume factory last month. Qamarul, 29, pleaded guilty to the charge read before Senior Assistant Registrar Abdurrahman Abrar Jarni in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday (Nov 24).
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here today has set January 7, 2026, for the next case management mention of a man charged with murdering his three-year-old girlfriend’s daughter last October. Mohammad Shukri Ryan, 32, faces a charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code for allegedly killing the child at a
KUCHING: A 49-year-old woman was fined RM3,500, or in default 10 months jail, by the Magistrate’s Court today for swinging a machete at her nephew, injuring his little finger. Zaleha Mat, from Kampung Tabuan Hilir, pleaded guilty to causing injury to her 21-year-old nephew under Section 324 of the Penal
KUCHING: Two men and a married couple were each sentenced to 10 years’ jail by the Sessions Court today for robbing a man in a budget hotel room last month. The accused, Mohd Ikmarrudin Adery, 30, Mohd Farus Junaidi, Nor Atiesya Mohammad Effindy, 30, and Zaidi Majani, 37, pleaded guilty
KUCHING: The Federal Court here on Wednesday (Nov 19) upheld the death sentence against a father convicted of murdering his two-month-old disabled son by slamming the infant onto a sofa nine years ago. A three-member panel led by Datuk Azizah Nawawi affirmed the High Court’s verdict against Vincent Marcos, 39,
KUCHING: A food premises owner was fined RM2,000 or five months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court for failing to display a no-smoking sign at his premises in June. In a statement, the Kuching Health Office said the owner pleaded guilty to a charge framed under Section 18(1)(a) of the Public
KUCHING: A man escaped the gallows after the Federal Court on Tuesday (Nov 18) substituted his death sentence with 35 years’ imprisonment and 15 strokes of the cane for shooting dead his elder brother nine years ago. A three-member panel led by Justice Datuk Azizah Nawawi unanimously set aside the
KUCHING: An unemployed man was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here for sexually abusing a teenage girl, resulting in her pregnancy and the birth of a baby boy two years ago. The 25-year-old man pleaded guilty to one charge
KUCHING: A woman was jailed for three months by the Magistrates’ Court here for stealing a laptop from a vehicle sales and distribution company. Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan meted out the sentence on Asmida Pauzi, 33, after she pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 380 of the Penal Code