IPOH: A habitual petty thief who was jailed three years last year for stealing manhole covers appealed to a higher court to give him more rotan strokes and let him out sooner so that he could care for his mentally ill sister.
When the High Court reviewed L. Peter Gobi's case, it found inaccuracies in the list of his previous convictions but failed to get a correct list from the Malaysia and Singapore Central Criminal registry.
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