Unemployed man gets six-year jail sentence for abusing woman and child


SHAH ALAM: A 27-year-old unemployed man was sentenced to six years imprisonment and ordered to be given three strokes of the rotan by the Sessions Court here for injuring a woman and her child with a machete.

He was also jailed for an additional three years and ordered to be caned once for robbing a convenience store of RM115.

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