In the Courts (2023): Jail, whipping for sexual assault (25.04.2023)
 Posted on : Apr 26, 2023, 11:37AM   37 total views  Category : Local News

BY Fadley Faisal

A local man was sentenced to eight months’ jail with one whipping after he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday to sexually assaulting a female colleague.

 

Senior Magistrate Hajah Ervy Sufitriana binti Haji Abdul Rahman heard that 29-year-old Mat Yusra bin Haji Mat Yussof was at work at 5.30pm on April 15 when he invited the victim to go for a smoke.

 

The victim rejected the defendant’s invitation, but the accused continued harassing the victim, eventually touching her waist.

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--- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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