PUTRAJAYA, May 20 — A former sugar cane seller escaped the gallows when the Federal Court commuted the death sentence to 40 years jail for the murder of Indonesian maid Muntik Bani, 15 years ago. The three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat unanimously handed the sentence to A. Murugan, 50, … Read more
PUTRAJAYA, May 1 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today defended the King against claims he wanted a casino built to save Forest City in Johor, calling the allegation malicious. He suggested that those making rumours against the royal institution were “crooks” who should be jailed. “What is this? I have never heard of … Read more
PUTRAJAYA, April 24 — A jobless man escaped the gallows after the Federal Court commuted the death sentence imposed on him to a 30-year jail sentence for killing a man nine years ago. The three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and … Read more
KOTA KINABALU, March 21 — A Sabahan Muslim convert was sentenced to six months in jail for insulting Islam on a Facebook page today. The 33-year-old property negotiator, Ricky Shane Cagampang, pleaded guilty to posting offensive remarks on Facebook over the issue of the word “Allah” on socks and was sentenced to six months imprisonment … Read more
SEOUL, March 19 — Former K-pop star Jung Joon-young left prison Tuesday after completing a five-year term for gang rape and illicit filming, in one of South Korea’s high profile spycam scandals. Advertisement Jung was found guilty of rape on two occasions in 2016 and of filming himself having intercourse with other women without their … Read more
MUAR, March 14 — The Sessions Court here today sentenced a lorry attendant to a total of five years in prison and three strokes of the cane for physical sexual assault and rape of a teenage girl last month. Judge Abu Bakar Manat handed down the sentence on Muhammad Syazwan Akmal Mohd Hanafadil, 27, after … Read more
KUALA TERENGGANU, March 5 — A woman who pleaded guilty to a charge of killing her friend four years ago was sentenced to 30 years jail by the High Court, here today. Judge Datuk Hassan Abdul Ghani ordered the accused, Siti Nur Athirah Azmi, 23, to serve the sentence from the day she was arrested, … Read more
PUTRAJAYA, March 5 — A former female clerk and her two friends escaped the gallows when the Court of Appeal today commuted the death sentence to 35 years in jail for abduction and murder of a managing director of a company, whose body was dumped over the Penang Second Bridge, nine years ago. This was … Read more
TAWAU, Feb 26 — The Tawau High Court today sentenced an unemployed Filipino man to 80 years jail and 24 strokes of the rotan on two charges of killing two Indonesian men in Semporna two years ago. The court handed down the sentence on Nurhan Khalid, 31, after he pleaded guilty to the charges read … Read more
KENINGAU, Feb 22 — A man was sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined RM6,000 by the Magistrate’s Court here today for using a fake identity card to work as a teacher at a school in Tenom, near here, for the past 29 years. Magistrate Nur Asyraf Zolhani imposed the sentence on Ridal Abdul … Read more
