MCO violators face the music

Stay home! Police officers escorting a wireman and three teenage boys from the Batu Pahat Majistrate’s Court where the four pleaded guilty before majistrate Nurul Izzati Mohamad for disobeying the MCO. — Bernama

MELAKA: A jobless man was jailed nine months by a Magistrate’s Court here for violating the movement control order (MCO) and slapping a security guard of a hypermarket.

Mohamad Shaiful Bahari Mohamad, 34, pleaded guilty when the charges were read before magistrate Mohamad Izwan Mohamed Noh yesterday.