Court upholds sentence of man who raped daughter

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Court of Appeal recently upheld the 14-year, six-month’s jail sentence of a local man convicted of raping his daughter, while criticising a procedural error by the lower court.

The appellant, who was charged on April 13, 2019 with two counts of raping his daughter, initially pleaded not guilty. However, at the commencement of the trial, he changed his plea to guilty for the first charge while he was acquitted for the second charge after it was withdrawn by the prosecution.