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PUTRAJAYA: A man could consider himself lucky after the Court of Appeal allowed his appeal for the jail sentences imposed on him for incest and committing unnatural sex with his step-daughter to be served concurrently.

Following a decision by a three-man bench of the Court of Appeal, headed by Justice Mohtarudin Baki, the man, now aged 49, would only have to serve 16 years in jail and receive six strokes of the cane.