Man gets 17 years’ jail for stabbing anti-drug officer

Facing the law: Raymond (left) being led out of court after his hearing in Sibu.

SIBU: A labourer who stabbed an officer of the Sibu National Anti-Drug Agency during a robbery has been sentenced to a total of 17 years and two months’ jail.

Raymond Bakak Kinsing, 18, from Bandar Baru Permyjaya in Miri, was also ordered to be given five strokes of the rotan by Sessions Court judge Stella Augustine Druce.