Kota Kinabalu: A 40-year-old German national was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by the Sessions Court here on two counts of entering Sabah illegally and obstructing an immigration officer.
Judge Hurman Hussain meted out the sentence to Kuecuekboga Suleyman after he changed his plea to guilty midway through his trial, during which the prosecution had called three witnesses.
On the first count, Suleyman received six months’ jail for entering the state without a valid travel document at the Immigration Department premises along Jalan UMS here at 8.50am on April 27.
On the second count, he was handed another six months’ jail for obstructing an immigration officer from recording his statement at the same premises at 4.30pm on May 5.
The court ordered the sentences to run consecutively from the date of conviction, while Deputy Public Prosecutor Syarifah Nursyuhada Tuan Mamat appeared for the prosecution and the accused was unrepresented.
