Kota Kinabalu: A 26-year-old woman was sentenced to three months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court here, Tuesday, for concealing her boyfriend, a remandee who escaped police custody in December last year, to avoid legal punishment.
Wann Nooraqiella Ahmadi pleaded guilty before Magistrate Wan Farrah Farriza Wan Ghazali to concealing Nazri Hassan, 33, whom she knew had escaped from the Sabah Contingent Central Lockup, with the intention of preventing him from legal punishment.
Wann committed the offence between 6am and 4pm on Dec 17, 2023 at a house in Kg Simpangan, Tuaran.
The charge also stated that Nazri was detained at the said lockup for an offence investigated under Section 431A of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to two years or fine, or both, on conviction.
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Nazri had climbed the wall towards the upper right window towards the outside of the building and escaped from the centralised lock-up in Kepayan.
Investigations revealed that Nazri went to his younger sister’s house at Kg Simpangan, Tuaran, at 6am on Dec 17 by riding a motorcycle and had asked his sister’s help to contact his girlfriend Wann Nooraqiella and asked the latter to fetch him.
Wann later brought him to her rented house in the same village, the court heard.
Later the same day, both Wann and Nazri went back to his sister’s house in an e-hailing car but Nazri alighted at the junction of the village while Wann continued her journey to the house.
The court heard that Wann and Nazri’s sister were arrested by the police at 4pm on the same day for concealing him despite knowing the police’s information about Nazri who had escaped from the central lockup, Kepayan.
Wann, who was unrepresented, requested leniency while the prosecution applied for an adequate sentence.
Wann was charged under Section 212 of the Penal Code which stated that if the offence is punishable with imprisonment, which may extend to one year but less than 10 years, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence or with fine, or both, on conviction.
For the record, on Dec 18, 2023, Nazri was re-arrested by police at 12.30pm in Tuaran.
He was on Dec 22, last year sentenced to 11 months by the Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a roll of stolen cable belonging to a telecommunications company in Manggatal on Dec 10, the same year.
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