Datuk Seri claims trial to rioting charge

In the dock: Loh (in blue shirt) being led to the magistrate’s court in Penang. All 12 pleaded not guilty to the charge of rioting at an entertainment outlet. — Bernama

GEORGE TOWN: A Datuk Seri and 11 others have claimed trial in a magistrate’s court to a charge of rioting at an entertainment outlet.

Businessman Loh Peng Kok, who turns 36 in a few days, and the others were alleged to have committed the offence in a room at the entertainment outlet at a shopping centre in Burma Road at 3.58am on March 18.