Court dismisses armed gang robber’s appeal

Fadley Faisal

An armed gang robber’s try and have his sentence decreased was dismissed by the Court docket of Enchantment.

“Safety of public security has an necessary position to play within the sentencing of an offender,” Chief Justice Dato Seri Paduka Steven Chong mentioned presiding within the enchantment.

The Chief Justice, assisted by Justices Michael Peter Burrell and Conrad Seagroatt, added that Muhammad Zami’ulhayat @ Izzat bin Mohsin’s case weighs closely in favour of a deterrent sentence.

Responding get together Prosecutor Atiyyah binti Abas revealed that the applying includes a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment with 12 whippings.

The applicant was convicted after a trial on expenses of armed gang theft and theft.

The respondent unearthed that the appellant and a co-accused stumbled on two Indonesians on the morning of June 26, 2019 whose automotive was parked by the highway facet in Kampong Tungku.

The Indonesians have been ready to begin their work shifts.

The appellant and his confederate approached one of many Indonesians and requested to borrow his cell phone to make a name.

It turned out to be a ruse for the appellant to grab a bag belonging to the opposite Indonesian positioned on prime of their automotive.

The duo drove off with the stolen bag, solely to seek out out later that it contained solely clothes.

The duo returned to the Indonesians, and the appellant took out a machete and held it to the Indonesian’s neck whereas instructing his confederate to take one other bag containing just under BND900 earlier than they sped off once more.

The sufferer tried to cease them by holding onto the passenger facet mirror however the appellant’s confederate kicked him off.

The appellant and his confederate then shared the cash.

The appellant mentioned his sentence will trigger his household nothing however hardship, and identified that his confederate had been sentenced to 6 years’ jail with 12 whippings.

The Court docket of Enchantment discovered no deserves within the appellant’s complaints, as his household‘s hardship can’t be a consider deciding his sentence and that his confederate’s sentence was resulting from him pleading responsible.

The appellant was additionally discovered to have prior theft and forgery convictions.

“It was a brazen theft on the facet of a public highway in broad daylight utilizing a lethal weapon to threaten the sufferer,” the appellate courtroom reiterated, on dismissing the applying.