No more concurrent sentences for convicts


Datuk Shaik Daud Ismail

KUALA LUMPUR: Anyone found guilty of multiple offences will now have to serve time for each crime consecutively, with concurrent sentences disallowed under amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code.

For example, a person convicted of housebreaking and theft will have to serve out the sentence for each offence one after another.

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