Four youths charged with gang robbery, rape and molest

BUTTERWORTH: Four youths have been charged at the Sessions Court Thursday with two counts of robbing a 46-year-old businessman and a 21-year-old woman from China.

Two of them also claimed trial to raping the woman, and one denied molesting her.

The four are despatch clerk Wan Noorsaipul Abdullah, 23, factory workers Muhammad Fuzairi Azmi, 23, and Mohamad Kamal Masiran, 25, and unemployed Mohamad Azrul Azlan Mohamad, 19.

They are jointly charged in one court with gang robbing the woman of her handbag, smartphone, gold chain, gold bracelet, camera, watch, RM1,000 and USD1,000.

In another court, they are charged with hurting the man while gang-robbing him of a smartphone, RM1,000 and ATM cards.

They denied committing the offences at the rest stop area of the Penang Bridge in Central Seberang Prai at 3.30am on Aug 3.

Fuzairi and Azrul are also separately charged in two Sessions Courts with raping the woman near the Sungai Lokan in North Seberang Prai between 3.30am and 7.07am the same day.

Wan Noorsaipul is also charged in a Magistrate's Court here with using criminal force to outrage the woman's modesty near the Sungai Lokan between 3.30am and 7.07am the same day.

The total amount of bail set by the courts was RM95,000, and the cases will be mentioned on Sept 23.