KUCHING: Two individuals were each fined RM500 in default three weeks’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here today for stealing iron materials from a construction site. Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nadzwa Radzali meted out the sentence on Donald Lawan Baji, 29, and Catherine Ngaring, 30, after they admitted to committing the offence.
KUCHING: The Court of Appeal here today upheld the death sentence imposed on a married couple convicted of murdering a 38-year-old woman in Sibu in 2020. A three-member panel comprising Datuk Wong Jian Heong, Datuk Dr Alwi Abdul Wahab and Datin Paduka Evrol Mariette Peters delivered the unanimous decision after
KUCHING: A repeat offender was sentenced to 34 months’ jail and fined RM3,500 today after pleading guilty to multiple theft-related charges. Mohamad Jalil Sidek Bakar, 32, pleaded guilty to five charges before Senior Assistant Registrar Abdurrahman Abrar Jarni, Magistrate Nur Syaheeqa Nazwa Radzali, and Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan. He was
KUCHING: A 36-year-old man was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and two strokes of the cane by the Sessions Court here today after changing his plea to guilty to a charge of self-administering dangerous drugs. Judge Iris Awen Jon imposed the sentence on Chong Hen Sen after he admitted to
KUCHING: The Court of Appeal here reduced the prison sentence of a man convicted of multiple child sexual offences from 50 years to 32 years, while maintaining 31 strokes of the cane. A three-member panel comprising Datuk Wong Jian Heong, Datuk Dr Alwi Abdul Wahab and Datin Paduk Evrol Mariette
SARIKEI: A 43-year-old man was charged at the Magistrates’ Court here today with the murder of an elderly man in an incident that allegedly occurred in Julau last month. The charge, read before Magistrate Stella Augustine Druce, was framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the death
KUCHING: A 34-year-old man has been sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here after pleading guilty to assaulting and threatening to kill his wife following a domestic dispute. Magistrate Mason Jaro Lenya Barayan ordered the accused, Bong Jian Bin, to serve 12 months’ jail for the first
KUCHING: A 16-year-old teenage boy was ordered to be sent to the Henry Gurney School in Puncak Borneo for three years after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl. Magistrate Nursyaheeqa Nazwa Radzali issued the order on Wednesday (March 4), stating that the sentence was in line with Section 91(1)(f)
KUCHING: Two men have each been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here for criminal trespass into a private property on Valentine’s Day. Magistrate Ling Hui Chuan handed down the sentence yesterday (Mar 3) after the accused were convicted under Section 447 of the Penal Code read
KUCHING: A 56-year-old man was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by the Magistrates’ Court here after he pleaded guilty to causing hurt to his wife in a case read together with an earlier drug offence for which he was fined RM3,000. Nen Sani was handed the jail term by Magistrate