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Free Malaysia Today
10 hours ago
- Health
- Free Malaysia Today
Man gets 12 years' jail, caning for possession of Japanese sword
The court ordered for both sentences to run concurrently from Shukri Ahmad's date of arrest on May 29, and for two years of police monitoring after their completion. (Reuters pic) PETALING JAYA : An unemployed man was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and two strokes of the rotan by the Muar sessions court today for possession of a Japanese sword and drug abuse. Buletin TV3 reported that Shukri Ahmad, 31, who has a record for 13 previous offences, pleaded guilty before judge Sayani Nor. According to the first charge, he was accused of possessing a dangerous weapon – a 90cm Japanese sword – at an eatery on Jalan Sungai Abong, Muar, at 3.13pm on May 24. The charge was made under Section 6(1) of the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958 for carrying offensive weapons in public places, which provides for five to 10 years' imprisonment and whipping upon conviction. According to the facts of the case, a 33-year-old man lodged a police report claiming he had been approached by three men, including Shukri, who was wearing a helmet and face mask, and carrying the sword. Shukri then pointed his sword and swung it several times at the victim, who managed to evade him. A police investigation found that the incident stemmed from Shukri's dissatisfaction after losing a previous fight with the victim. According to the second charge, Shukri tested positive for amphetamine and methamphetamine use. The court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and one stroke of the rotan for the first charge, and seven years' imprisonment as well as another stroke of the rotan for the second charge. The court ordered for both sentences to run concurrently from his date of arrest on May 29, and for two years of police monitoring after their completion. The prosecution was led by deputy public prosecutor Diyana Najihah Fauzi while Shukri was unrepresented.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Russia sentences Melitopol family over alleged attack on collaborator and railway sabotage
A man, his wife and mother from occupied Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast have been sentenced to between 20 years and life imprisonment for supposedly blowing up a local collaborator and attempting to blow up a section of railway by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. Source: Russian news outlets Mediazona and Nastoyashchee Vremya Details: It is reported that 29-year-old Artem Murdid, a resident of occupied Melitopol, was sentenced to life imprisonment, his common-law wife Anna Voshkoder to 20 years in a general regime penal colony, and his mother Anna Murdid to 22 years in a penal colony. The man will spend the first eight years in prison and the rest of his sentence in a strict regime colony. According to the Russians, former Oschadbank cash collector Artem Murdid, his wife and mother were members of a "terrorist community" led by an unidentified employee of the Security Service of Ukraine. The women were supposedly involved in monitoring "targets of criminal attacks". The Russian investigation claims that the accused were preparing four attacks. The only successful attack was the blowing up of the car of Ivan Tkach, director of the Municipal Transport company, who collaborated with the Russian authorities. Tkach was killed in the explosion, and a female employee of the company, Olena Syvashchenko, was seriously injured but survived. In addition, the investigators stated that the family had supposedly attempted to blow up a section of the railway, and Artem on his own had attempted to blow up Deriabin, the head of the railway station, and the head of the occupation administration of Melitopol. During the trial, Artem Murdid stated that he had learned about the essence of the charges from Russian law enforcement officials, who "created certain physical conditions – violence and torture". As a result of the torture, he said, he was forced to give testimony on which the charges are based. His mother, Anna Murdid, also spoke about the use of torture. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Free Malaysia Today
28-05-2025
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
3 men jailed a year each for splashing paint on house, car
Magistrate S Mageswary ordered the three accused to serve their jail sentences from the date of their arrest on April 16. PETALING JAYA : Three men were sentenced to a year's imprisonment each by the Kuala Lumpur magistrates' court today after pleading guilty to causing mischief by splashing paint on the exterior of a house two months ago. Magistrate S Mageswary pronounced the sentence on technician Chin Zi Ping, company manager Tieu Boon Chow, and air conditioning technician Ooi Hong Leong, Bernama reported. She ordered their sentences to begin from the date of their arrest on April 16. The trio were charged with splashing paint on the exterior of a man's house, his car and motorcycle, causing RM10,000 in damage to the house at Taman Angkasa Batu 6, Brickfields, at 4.50am on March 29. The charge was under Section 427 of the Penal Code for mischief, which provides for one to five years' imprisonment, a fine, or both, on conviction. Deputy public prosecutor Nur Farhana Poad asked that all three accused receive punishment commensurate with their crime, taking into consideration the cost of losses suffered by the victim. Lawyer Nurul Diyana Basher from the National Legal Aid Foundation asked for a shorter jail sentence, as her clients had families and had apologised for their action.
New York Times
16-05-2025
- New York Times
Couple Imprisoned Girl for 7 Years and Kept Her in Dog Cage, Police Say
One evening last week, a barefoot teenage girl with a shaved head burst into her next-door neighbor's home in Blackwood, N.J., sat down on the couch and began to spill out a harrowing story. She said her stepfather and mother had imprisoned her at their home for the past seven years, ever since they pulled her out of elementary school with the excuse that she would be home-schooled. She said they locked her in a dog crate for an entire year, and at one point had chained her up in a bathroom. She said her stepfather had sexually abused her. This week, following a police investigation, prosecutors in Camden County, in South Jersey just outside Philadelphia, announced several charges against her mother, Brenda Spencer, 38, and stepfather, Branndon Mosely, 41. They included assault, criminal restraint, kidnapping and weapons offenses; Mr. Mosely also faces numerous counts of sexual assault. 'The investigation has corroborated the heinous acts endured by the victim and we will hold those responsible accountable,' Lt. Andy McNeil, a spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said in an interview. Authorities did not identify the 18-year-old teenager. Mr. Mosely is a rail conductor for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the transit system that serves the Philadelphia region, and Ms. Spencer is a dog handler who specializes in Great Danes, the authorities said. They are being held in jail while they await a detention hearing scheduled for next week. Lawyers for the couple declined to comment. Days after the distressed teenage girl barreled into the home where he was staying, Michael Lacey, a 36-year-old pool cleaner, said he kept breaking down in tears over the brutality she had described. She recounted to Mr. Lacey how an alarm system was rigged so she could not escape. How her mother shaved her head as punishment and how she was forced to relieve herself in a bucket. And she explained to Mr. Lacey that it all happened behind closed doors just 20 yards away from the house he was staying in, which belonged to his mother. 'After I found out that everything she was telling me was true, I broke down,' Mr. Lacey said in an interview. 'I wish I had known. I wish I had known.' The region has recently been shaken by an eerily similar episode in which a 32-year-old Connecticut man escaped from what he said was 20 years of imprisonment by his late father and stepmother. He lit a fire in his room, forcing firefighters to rescue him from his family's burning home, the authorities have said. His stepmother faces multiple charges relating to his confinement. The scene in Blackwood, where the teenager is believed to have been held, is 'one of the most despicable cases we've run across,' Chief David Harkins of the Gloucester Township Police Department said at a news conference on Wednesday. Officials also took aim at home-schooling, an increasingly popular and barely regulated alternative to traditional schooling. Taking the girl out of school 'helped hide the heinous, yearslong torture,' Grace C. MacAulay the Camden County prosecutor said. When the police entered the home, they found squalid conditions, Ms. MacAulay said, as well as a room rigged with an alarm system, the bucket the girl said she had been forced to use and the chains she said had bound her. Mr. Mosely and Ms. Spencer took the teenager's 13-year-old sister out of school after second grade in an effort to conceal her sibling's abuse, according to a criminal complaint. 'They were afraid she would tell someone that the victim was living in a dog crate,' the document reads. The charges against the couple relate only to the older sister; officials said an investigation was continuing into whether there were other victims. According to their Facebook accounts, Mr. Mosely and Ms. Spencer have three other children together: a 3-year-old boy and twin 5-year-old girls. Officials said that only the two teenage sisters were found in the home, and were unable to provide information about any other children. A large number of animals were also removed from the home, including four Great Danes, three other dogs, a lizard, snakes, several birds, two hamsters and 29 chinchillas, according to Chief Harkins. Ms. Spencer's social media is filled with love notes to Mr. Mosely, interspersed with images of her in sundresses posing with Great Danes at dog competitions. The family appears to have lived at their house on Ridge Avenue since 2017, according to property records. Since then, the only police calls to the home have been for barking dogs in the yard. But whenever the police arrived, Chief Harkins said, the couple quickly put the dogs inside. No responding officers ever entered the house.
Daily Mail
16-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE His gruesome murder trial captured the nation... but I uncovered a secret that proved his innocence
When Alvin Ridley was arrested and charged with imprisoning and murdering his wife in 1997, his story completely captured the nation. Soon, Alvin - a 55-year-old TV repairman from Ringgold, Georgia - was branded as a 'sicko' who had held his wife, Virginia, captive for 30 years before he brutally killed her.
