Criminal lawyer jailed for death threat against another


PETALING JAYA: A criminal lawyer, who made a death threat against another lawyer in 2014, has been sentenced by a magistrate’s court to nine months in prison and a fine of RM10,000.

A. Suayri, 56, was found guilty of threatening fellow lawyer Datuk Suraj Singh during a Selangor Bar event at Lake View Club in Su­­bang Jaya at 11.35pm on May 24, 2014.

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