Vietnamese man faces five charges after Butterworth supermarket hostage drama
However, proceedings against Nguyen Minh Hoa, 36, have been postponed to Sept 9 to allow for the presence of a Vietnamese interpreter.
Magistrate Aini Adilah Muhammad Faizal also ruled that the accused will not be granted bail.
It is understood that Nguyen faces three charges under Section 324 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon or dangerous means, two charges under Section 380 of the Penal Code for theft, and one charge under Section 15(1)(c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63 for overstaying his visa.
Deputy public prosecutor Siti Marissa Safina Saiful Adli appeared for the prosecution, while the accused was unrepresented.
After the hearing, Nguyen was escorted out of the courtroom in a wheelchair, reportedly due to a gout condition.
It was earlier reported that police had detained a man after behaving aggressively and fled from a supermarket on Jalan Telaga Air with stolen seafood.
During the incident, which occurred around 12.45pm, the suspect grabbed an 11-month-old baby, who was in his mother's arms, while holding a knife, causing bruises on the child's back.
A supermarket supervisor had caught the man trying to leave with some weighed seafood without paying.
As the supervisor intervened, the suspect broke free and grabbed the baby while brandishing a knife.
Staff and shoppers quickly overpowered and handed him over to the police when they arrived at the scene.
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