Kota Kinabalu: The Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday deferred to Nov 16 for the case of a 23-year-old man, who wished to plead guilty to a charge of house-trespass, pending his Covid-19 swab test result.
Magistrate Lovely Natasha Charles set the date for Tony Victor Jhonny, who was at the central lock up in Kepayan, via video teleconference proceedings.
Lovely informed Tony that since he wanted to plead guilty, the court could not show him the documents as he should have been present in the court but the problem was that he have not taken a Covid-19 swab test.
According to the prosecution, detainees can only be brought to the court after they are tested negative for Covid-19.
Tony earlier informed the court that he wished to plead guilty to the charge under Section 453 of the Penal Code.
The charge stated that Tony committed house-trespass by putting his hand through the window to steal a handphone that belonged to one Dyan Sharon at Block K of the UUC apartment in Telipok on Oct 3.
No plea taken from Tony.
The prosecution proposed bail at RM6,000 and informed the court that Tony has a previous conviction record.
The court offered Tony bail at RM3,000 in two sureties with an addition order that he can only be bailed out after getting swab test result from the Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, 21 people were on Tuesday penalised for committing drug-related offences.
Sixteen of them including a 50-year-old man, who told the court that he took syabu to increase his appetite as he was losing weight, were sentenced for taking drugs.
Chai Kong Ming, Syafik Abdullah, Leong Vui Vun, Joel Nahum, Pelson Oned, Hail Pattah, Brendon Isaac, Norazmi Dulah, Junius Masubat, Patrick Kinsu, Azrin Ahmad, Halim Kunjan, Jafar Sulaiman, RaynoldMarinus, Hedwig Kudin and Kasmil Nangapas all pleaded guilty to committing the offence between July and August this year.
Chai, Syafik, Joel, Leong, and Hedwig were fined between RM2,000 and RM2,500 while the rest were jailed between 11 months and two months.
Syafik, Leong and five others Noel Ryan, Joesel Lijimi, Adli Irod, Suhaimi Abdul and Firdaus Anuar pleaded guilty to having syabu.
Firdaus was fined RM3,000 or seven months jail, Syafik and Joel were fined RM2,000 or eight months jail while the rest were jailed between 10 months and two months.
The 21 were produced before Magistrates Lovely and Stephanie Sherron Abbie on Tuesday.
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