Dad and son claim trial to assaulting cop

To trial: Shaik Abdul Shukor (right) and Shaik Abdul Wahab being led to the magistrate’s court in George Town.

GEORGE TOWN: A father and son claimed trial in a magistrate’s court here to spitting at and slapping a police corporal who had issued them a summons in Patani Road here.

Shaik Abdul Shukor Shaik Abdul Wahab, 31, and his father Shaik Abdul Wahab Shaik Ibrahim, 67, from Bukit Mertajam, are jointly charged with using criminal force on Kpl Mohamed Sharul Nizam by spitting and slapping the latter to prevent him from carrying out his duty at around 9.50pm on Wednes­day.