KUCHING: A teenager will spend the next three years at the Henry Gurney School Puncak Borneo reflecting on his action after pleading guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today to stealing a motorcycle belonging to a 59-year-old man. Magistrate Zaiton Anuar ordered the 15-year-old offender to undergo rehabilitation after hearing
KUCHING: A local woman was charged in the Sessions Court for abusing her biological daughter to the point of causing physical injury on May 19. The offender Safina John, 27, pleaded not guilty as soon as the charge was read before Judge Afidah Abdul Rahman today. According to the charge,
KUCHING: The High Court here struck out a lawsuit filed by 12 people seeking to annul the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63). Judicial Commissioner Alexander Siew How Wai, in delivering his judgement, said the case was struck out after due consideration that the plaintiffs’ claim is unsustainable. He explained that the
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here ordered a 19-year-old youth to be sent to Henry Gurney School until he turns 21 on six counts of outraging the modesty of women and trespassing into the home of an elderly man. The school is a centre established in 1949 under Malaysian Juvenile Court.to
KUCHING: The Magistrate’s Court here sentenced a local woman to 14 months in prison for possessing 4.65g of methamphetamine drugs in a hotel room in Muara Tebas last January. Kenanga Udin, 29, from Kampung Tabuan Hilir, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Syarifah Fatimah Azura Wan Ali to a charge framed under
KUCHING: At the Sessions Court on Friday (May 19), a man was sentenced to eight years in prison and given four strokes of the cane for sexually assaulting his eight-year-old grandniece. The 44-year-old defendant, employed as a plantation worker in Simunjan, pleaded guilty to two charges presented before Judge Maris
KUCHING: The Sessions Court here yesterday sentenced a man to five years’ imprisonment and 13 strokes of the cane for possessing syabu in front of an open-air eatery in November last year. The accused, Chang Bui Ping, 44, had pleaded guilty to two charges read before Magistrate Musli Abdul Hamid.
KUCHING: The High Court here struck out the prosecution’s appeal against a Sessions Court’s decision to discharge and acquit a primary school teacher of committing sexual assault and gross indecency against a 12-year-old male student in 2019. Judge Datuk Zaleha Rose Pandin made the order after Deputy Public Prosecutor Aida
KUCHING: A labourer was fined RM1,800 in default four months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today (May 12) for stealing a fan. Azizul, 36, pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 414 of the Penal Code which was read by an interpreter in front of Magistrate Zaiton Anuar. He
KUCHING: Five men were each fined RM700 in default one month’s jail by the Magistrate Court here today (May 12) for causing a violent brawl last March. Norzaimi, 29, Mukhris, 21, Aloysius 24, Razali, 22, and Ozzy, 31, all pleaded guilty to the charge read before Magistrate Zaiton Anuar. They
