Chai (left) greeting Lim outside the Sessions Court when he arrived before the hearing began.
KUCHING: A farmer from Siburan was sentenced to two years’ jail and whipping by one stroke of the rotan after he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to snatch a woman’s gold necklace in Siburan last year.
Chai Kau Lee, 47, appeared before Judge Allaudeen Ismail who convicted him on his own under Section 395 of the Penal Code read together with Section 511 of the same code.
He committed the offence near a graveyard at Mile 17, along Kuching-Serian Road on Sept 5 last year around 5pm with another person who is still at large.
Chai admitted that while riding pillion with another person he tried to snatch the woman’s necklace when she was walking to her house nearby.
This prompted the woman, in her 60s, to scream for help, which was heard by her husband and son who rushed out to see her struggling to defend herself.
Upon seeing the victim’s son and husband, the duo fled from the scene. The victim’s husband then gave chase on a motorbike and managed to apprehend the pillion rider who is the accused.
In his mitigation yesterday, Chai begged for leniency as he is the sole breadwinner in the family.
He said his wife had left the family and he is a father and mother for his two children aged four and seven.
DPP Stella Augustine Druce prosecuted while defence counsel Lim Lian Kee represented Chai.