Self-employed man loses final appeal, must serve 10 years in jail, whipping for robbery

PUTRAJAYA: A self-employed man has lost his final appeal as the Court of Appeal has upheld his conviction and sentence of 10 years in prison and two strokes of the cane for gang robbery.

A panel of three judges, comprising Justices Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, Mohamed Zaini Mazlan and Azmi Ariffin, upheld the Sessions Court's decision, which had convicted Mohd Azwan Taleb for the offence; the High Court had affirmed this decision.