KUALA LUMPUR, Friday- A magistrate’s court was told today that no bite marks were found on the hand of a youth accused of using criminal force on a nine-year-old schoolgirl.

Counsel Jerald Gomez submitted that such a mark would be sufficient corroboration to implicate his client, Mohammed Johan Mohammad Ali.

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A mother of three cried when a magistrate’s court here today discharged and cautioned her for shoplifting a bedsheet for her children.

In releasing Lai Yoke Lin, 30, magistrate Lee Lay Choo said the court did not condone such a crime but believed the circumstances leading to the act.

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KUALA LUMPUR: A 13-year-old boy was charged in a magistrate’s court yesterday with murdering his tuition teacher’s daughter.

The Form One student from Setapak Jaya was charged with causing the death of Liew Mei Fong, 11, by stabbing her with a sharp weapon at a house in Taman Sri Rampai in Wangsa Maju between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on May 30.

Yvonne Raj held a watching brief for the victim’s family.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sun – It seemed somewhat irregular: two directors, involved in a civil suit, were thrown into remand recently and forced to sign documents and cheques amounting to RM690,000 before they were released from custody.

Tham Hua Kong and Lee Chee Ming now claim they fear for their lives and have been in hiding since their on Nov 8, from the Bandar Puchong Jaya police station.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs – The High Court today allowed an application by two officers with the Orang Asli Affairs Department (JOA) to discharge a former Sessions Court Judge, now a deputy public prosecutor, from continuing to hear a cheating case.

Judge Syed Ahmad Idid allowed the application by JOA senior storekeeper Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman and divisional director Ibrahim Wahab to discharge DPP Stanley Augustin from continuing to hear a case in which Abdul Aziz is charged with attempting to cheat the JOA and Ibrahim charged with abetting him.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. – The sessions Court today discharged fashion designer Mior Abdul Razak Yahya charged with fabricating evidence for use in a trial because his case has been pending for a long time.

Judge Akhtar Tahir granted the discharge not amounting to an acquittal after Senior Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Zaki Md Yassin applied for the hearing to be postponed to another date.

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Kuala Lumpur: Two Orang Asli Affairs Department officials including a division director were acquitted of corruption charges after the High Court allowed their appeals yesterday.

Mr Justice K.C. Vohrah discharged senior storekeeper Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman, 44, and Regrouping Division director Ibrahim Wahab, 45, after hearing submissions from counsel Jerald Allen Gomez and Christopher Fernando, and Deputy Public Prosecutor Feisal Mustapha.

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Now and then, Benjamin Wong, 33, will ponder over an incident that happened four years ago in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. That was when his automatic pistol misfired and the bullet ricocheting of the ceiling, struck a man dead. But his conscience is clear. “I was attacked first and it was the stray bullet that killed the man, not me,” he said.

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George Town: A High Court here has granted leave for two dog owners to seek a judicial review of the Penang Municipal Council (MPPP)’s decision to put their four pitbull-type dogs to sleep.

High Court judge Yaacob Md Sam fixed the hearing of the review on July 5.

With this decision, the dogs now have a temporary respite until the outcome of the hearing.

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Kuala Lumpur: The recent death of a baby boy at an unregistered daycare centre in Shah Alam has spurred an online campaign for stricter regulations by child advocacy group Voice of the Children.

Three-month-old Tan Yan Xue was found dead on March 23 in one of the estimated 2,000 unregistered centres, based on Social Welfare Department data, operating across the country.

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