Reduced sentence for mosque thief

Fadley Faisal

The Courtroom of Enchantment on November 23 lowered the sentence of a person who stole from the mosque, after giving consideration to its totality precept.

Muhammad Shahriman bin Rahman’s sentence of 42 months’ jail with two canings was revised to 32 months’ jail with two strokes.

On April 9, the Intermediate Courtroom handed the sentence to the appellant after he pleaded responsible to 5 costs of theft of precious properties from completely different mosques, three dedicated this yr, whereas two in 2020 and 2021.

President of the Courtroom of Enchantment Justice Michael Peter Burrell, assisted by Justices Michael Lunn and Conrad Seagroatt, noticed that the sentencing court docket had rigorously given consideration to the mitigating elements of the case, however not sufficient to offer low cost, with regards to deciding on the sequence of sentence to every cost.

The appellate court docket revised the sequence the place the more moderen costs’ sentences ordered to run concurrently with each other, however consecutive to the sentences on the fees regarding older offences, which run concurrently to 1 one other. The court docket additionally upheld the 2 canings ordered by the sentencing court docket.

Prosecutor Sabrina binti Haji Mahmud assisted the court docket in responding to the appellant’s utility.