Schizophrenic jailed, fined for burning neighbour’s shoe rack


Laimus Yampat (second right) with his lawyers outside the courtroom.

KOTA KINABALU: A 36-year-old schizophrenic man, who pleaded guilty to burning his neighbour’s shoe rack, was jailed for a year and fined RM1,000 by the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (March 15).

Laimus Yampat, who was being treated for mental illness, committed the offence at a house in Kampung Terintidon in the Kota Belud district, about 80km from here, on June 24 last year.

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