MCO defiance: Technician gets three months’ jail for provoking cops


PORT DICKSON: A 24-year-old technician charged with using criminal force against a police team that had ordered him and his family to disperse from a beach here under the movement control order (MCO) has been sentenced to three months’ jail.

Jonathan John from Petaling Jaya, Selangor, was sentenced by magistrate Siti Huzaifah Abd Talib after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

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