BY Fadley Faisal

The Magistrate’s Court sentenced two 29-year-old locals to imprisonment following their guilty pleas on Wednesday.

Mohamad Azwandy bin Akob got 10 months’ jail with two canings and a fine of BND1,000 for charges of auto theft, mischief by causing damages to the stolen vehicle and for switching number plates of the stolen car.

The defendant would have to serve an additional month’s jail in default of payment of the fine.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Ismahadi bin Saidi, received a year’s jail sentence for stealing the car as well.

Prosecutor Sabrina binti Haji Mahmud’s facts of the case stated that investigations by personnel from the Limau Manis Police Station unearthed that the duo committed the offence, along with a third person, during the early hours of August 9, when they went to Kampong Junjongan Industrial Park.

There they noticed a parked car and pried open the window panel using a chisel to unlock the car.

They then started the engine using a key they brought with them.

-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin