BY Fadley Faisal
A local rape offender had his appeal against conviction and sentence for the latest case backfire when the Court of Appeal revised and increased the appellant’s sentence to a 30 years’ jail term.
The 56-year-old man, whose identity has been withheld to protect the victim from being identified, was last convicted of rape after trial on August 31, 2019 which landed him a jail-sentence of 25 years and six months.
The victim was his grandniece, who was nine years old when the offence took place at their family home.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin