JOHOR BARU: A 26-year-old man with a history of mental illness pleaded guilty to robbery but pleaded with a magistrate here to increase his whipping sentence and reduce his jail sentence.
Magistrate Mohd Fuad Abd Ghani warned the accused Abdul Rahman Abdul Wahab that the whippings would leave a mark for life.
“This is not the rotan that they use in school. Are you sure that you want me to increase the number of whippings?” he said.
The accused repeatedly nodded his head and stated that he wanted the increased whippings.
Magistrate Mohd Fuad eventually sentenced the man to one-year imprisonment and three strokes of the rotan, stating that Abdul Rahman’s medical reports show that he was aware and not suffering from mental illness at the time of the incident.
According to the facts of the case, the accused robbed Liau Yu Hao,14, using a knife at the Papaya Cybercafé situated at Jalan Kebudayaan 12 in Taman University here on June 13 at around 10am.
He stole a chain, a gold ring, a touchscreen mobile phone and two other handphones belonging to the victim.
Abdul Rahman was sentenced under Section 392/397 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum jail term of 10 years, a fine or whipping if convicted.
DPP Amira Sariaty Zainal prosecuted the case while the accused was not represented.
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