The Intermediate Court recently sentenced a local man to nine years and six months’ jail, with four whippings after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting and sodomising his nephew.
The defendant, whose name is withheld, claimed trial to Deputy Public Prosecutor Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali’s charges.
It was earlier alleged the defendant of having sexually assaulted his 14-year-old nephew on two counts, and one count of sodomising him at a flathouse in the Brunei-Muara District sometime between February and April 2022. Judge Pengiran Masni binti Pengiran Haji Bahar found the prosecution’s evidence to have satisfied the court beyond reasonable doubt, convicted the defendant and handed the sentence on November 13.
-- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin