Johor man jailed 36 years for raping two teen daughters
Published on: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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FMT, V Anbalagan
The Court of Appeal heard that the father of five had raped the two girls at their home in Segamat Baru, Johor in 2017 and 2020.
PUTRAJAYA: A former crane operator will serve 36 years in jail and be whipped 20 times after the Court of Appeal allowed his appeal against his sentence for raping his two underage daughters.
A sessions court had sentenced the man, aged 42, to 20 years’ jail and to be whipped 12 times for raping his 15-year-old daughter in mid-2017.
ADVERTISEMENT The same court also sentenced him to another 20 years’ jail and 12 more strokes of the rotan for raping his 13-year-old daughter in early January 2020.
The accused had pleaded guilty when charged on May 12, 2020.
However, the trial judge ordered the jail sentences to run consecutively, meaning he would serve 40 years in jail and be given 24 strokes of the rotan.
The High Court had also dismissed his appeal against the sentence.
ADVERTISEMENT Today, a three-member Court of Appeal bench chaired by Justice Kamaludin Said reduced the jail terms for each sentence from 20 years to 18 and the whipping from 12 strokes to 10.
Kamaludin, who sat with Justices Azman Abdullah and Lim Chong Fong, ordered the jail terms to run consecutively, meaning the accused will serve 36 years in jail and be whipped 20 times.
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Earlier, lawyer Ameerul Aizat Noor Haslan submitted that 40 years was excessive and that the accused would likely be freed from jail when he is 80.
However, Azman told the lawyer the man would only serve 27 years as he would get one-third remission for good behaviour.
Ameerul also asked for the 24 strokes, the maximum allowed under the law, to be reduced.
“I am not asking for the sentence to run concurrently because the same offence was committed on two victims on different occasions,” he said.
Deputy public prosecutor Fauziah Daud, in urging the count to maintain the sentences, said there were two distinct offences as the crimes took place in 2017 and 2020.
The facts of the case revealed that the accused, a father of five, raped the girls at their home in Segamat Baru, Segamat, Johor.
He was arrested on May 5, 2020 after a report was lodged by an aunt of the girls.
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