Kota Kinabalu: A car wash worker was sentenced to 24 months’ jail and fined RM2,000 or three months jail by the Magistrate’s Court here Tuesday for housebreaking and theft.
Senior Assistant Registrar Tiong Wen Wen, who sat as a magistrate, meted out the sentence to Idzham Loh and ordered him to serve the sentence from the date of his arrest on Nov 4, 2021.
Earlier, Loh, 20, told the court that he do not want to wait for a social report to be prepared and wished to be sentenced straight away.
He had on Dec 3, last year pleaded guilty to the charge but the court adjourned the case to Tuesday pending his social report being prepared.
Loh admitted to breaking into a house at Taman Indah Permai, Sepanggar, Manggatal and stealing a unit of drone and a watch at 12.50pm on Sept 26, last year.
The charge under Section 457 of the Penal Code provides imprisonment up to five years and fine. If the offence includes theft, the jail term could be extended to 14 years and the repeat offence also carries fine or whipping, on conviction. Inspector Navind Kumar Vijayan prosecuted.
In another case, two people were claimed trial for committing affray last year.
Sherillin Adrino, 26, and Gabriel Yap, 21, pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Lovely Natasha Charles to fighting at 3am on Nov 16, 2021 in front of the D’Café Siurang restaurant in Penampang.
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