Kota Kinabalu: A 49-year-old jobless man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and one stroke of the cane for taking syabu for the third time.
Maarof Garib pleaded guilty before Sessions Court Judge Monica Linsua to consuming the drug after testing positive during a urine screening at a police station here on May 9.
The court heard that Maarof had two previous convictions for the same offence in 2015 and 2016.
He was charged under Section 15(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, read together with Section 39C(1) of the same Act, which provides for a jail term of between five and seven years and whipping upon conviction.
The court ordered him to serve the sentence from the date of his arrest and to undergo three years of police supervision upon completing his prison term.
