Woman who ran amok spared jail


PUTRAJAYA: The sword-wielding woman who ran amok outside the Prime Minister’s Department here two years ago has been ordered by the Sessions Court here to be sent to a mental institution.

The court accepted a psychiatric report that Muhdalena Ahmad, 30, was suffering from psychotic depression and was emotionally unstable at the time of the offence.

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