Ampang temple vandal sentenced to 5 years in prison
Sufpriyanndi Masyhuri was charged at the Ampang sessions and magistrates' courts with carrying weapons, defiling a place of worship and criminal intimidation. (Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA : An unemployed man who vandalised a Hindu temple in Kampung Tasek Ampang and threatened to behead a temple committee member was sentenced to five years in prison.
Sufpriyanndi Masyhuri, 33, pleaded guilty to three charges at the Ampang sessions and magistrates' courts.
At the sessions court, he was charged with entering the Dewi Sri Maha Kaliamman Temple at around 6am on May 19 armed with a hammer, steel cutter, two parangs and a keris.
A temple committee member who was monitoring the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage from his home saw the accused vandalising a deity's trident.
The committee member rushed to the scene, where Sufpriyanndi allegedly pointed a parang at him and threatened to behead him.
The charge was framed under Section 6(1) of the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958, which relates to the carrying of weapons.
Judge Nurulizwan Ahmad Zubir sentenced him to five years in jail and ordered him to be given one stroke of the cane.
In the magistrates' court, Sufpriyanndi also pleaded guilty to damaging the temple at the same time and location.
He was accused of committing the act with the intention and knowledge that members of the Hindu community might regard the damage as an insult to their religion.
The charge was framed under Section 295 of the Penal Code, which relates to defiling a place of worship with intent to insult religion.
Magistrate Normaizan Rahim sentenced him to seven months' imprisonment for the offence.
In a separate magistrates' court, magistrate Amalina Basirah Top sentenced Sufpriyanndi to five months in jail after he admitted to criminally intimidating M Mohana Thas, 34, by threatening to behead him.
The charge was framed under Section 506 of the Penal Code for criminal intimidation.
All sentences are to run concurrently.
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