Jail sentence for man who lived on prostitutes' earnings reduced from eight years to five

PUTRAJAYA: A former chairman of a religious group in Kota Baru, Kelantan, has lost his appeal to set aside his conviction for living on the earnings of four Thai prostitutes but succeeded in reducing his eight-year jail sentence to five.

A three-judge Court of Appeal panel led by Judge Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, Datuk Azmi Ariffin and Datuk Azhahari Kamal Ramli, also reduced Chan Boon Lee's whipping sentence from four strokes to two.