Youth gets jail for friend’s death


Off to prison: (left) Vaitheswaran leaving the Magistrate’s Court after he was sentenced.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A 23-year-old driver who caused the death of his college mate on the Penang Bridge in a crash that shocked the state has been sentenced to three years in jail and was immediately sent to prison after the Magistrate’s Court refused to allow a stay of execution.

Former hairstylist M. Vaitheswaran’s lawyer, K. Paramanathan, said they would be appealing against the sentence and will file the appeal today.

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