KUCHING: A youth was sentenced to a total of 18 days’ imprisonment by a magistrates’ court here after he pleaded guilty to stealing his father’s mobile phone and concealing the stolen handphone.
Magistrate Portia Tham Ong Leng imposed the sentence on Awang Nazrin Awang Sulong, 21, after convicting him under Section 380 of the Penal Code for the first charge and Section 414 of the same Act for the second charge.
Awang Nazrin was given the 18 days’ jail after he admitted stealing his father’s mobile phone at their house at Kampung Tabuan Ulu between 8pm on April 8 and 7am on April 9 this year. He was also given another 10 days’ jail for selling the mobile phone at a shop in Tabuan.
The court ordered his custodial sentence to run concurrently and to take effect immediately.
The accused’s 58-year-old father lodged a police report after he lost patience with his son for stealing items from the house.
Following the report, a police team picked his son up from the house for investigation, after which he led them to a shop where he sold off the phone.
In a separate magistrates’ court, a security guard was slapped with a RM3,000 fine in default four months’ jail after he pleaded guilty to intimidating his wife and children in a car with a parang last Sunday.
Jamil Sindi, 50, from Taman Sukma admitted to have threatened his wife, who is a nurse, and his children at a parking space in front of a government clinic at Batu Kawa around 11.20am on April 13.
He was convicted under Section 506 of the Penal Code. The accused’s 53-year-old wife said her husband took a parang from his car bonnet and asked them to get out from the car they were in. Earlier on, they had a heated argument over personal matters.