KUALA LUMPUR – The appellate court has upheld former Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong's guilty verdict for raping his maid.
The majority decision, delivered by Datuk Azman Abdullah this morning, maintained the high court's conviction of Yong in 2022.
Azman said that the high court judge had not erred in reaching the guilty verdict and that the panel agreed with the judge's assessment that Yong's defence against the offence was an afterthought and a mere denial.
"Therefore, we dismiss the appeal with no order for costs," he said.
On July 27, 2022, the Ipoh High Court convicted the former assemblyman for raping his maid in 2019. Yong was sentenced to 13 years in jail and two strokes of the cane.
However, the panel reduced Yong’s sentence from 13 years to 8 years of imprisonment and maintained his sentence of two strokes of the cane. – March 1, 2024
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