KUALA LUMPUR: A single father was sentenced to five years' in jail and eight strokes of the rotan by a Sessions Court here for committing armed robbery at a convenience store and a pharmacy. For the second charge, Herman robbed RM258.10, which belonged to MyNews.com at Jalan Raja Chulan using a knife at 7.55pm on July 29. For the fourth charge, Herman robbed RM591 from MyNews.Com using a machete at Dataran Jelatek at 6.48am on May 31. The court then sentenced him to five years' in jail and two strokes of the cane for each of the charge. The jail sentence was ordered to run concurrently from the date of arrest on Oct 1.

Source: The Star October 11, 2019 09:22 UTC