PUTRAJAYA: A labourer has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to serve 32 years behind bars, with 22 strokes of the cane, for raping and sodomising his underage daughter five years ago.
A three-judge panel comprising judges Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim, Datuk Azman Abdullah and Datuk Azmi Ariffin dismissed the 51-year-old man’s appeals yesterday to overturn his conviction and imprisonment term for a rape charge and a sodomy charge.
In a separate ruling, the court allowed the prosecution’s appeal to reinstate the conviction for another rape charge, reversing a High Court decision that had acquitted and discharged the man of that offence.
In dismissing the man’s appeal to the rape and sodomy charges, Justice Ahmad Zaidi said there were concurrent findings made by both the Sessions Court and High Court. He also said the victim’s testimony was supported by medical evidence.
On July 4, 2022, the Sessions Court in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, convicted the man of two charges of raping his daughter, who was then 15 years old, and one charge of sodomising her at a house in Kuala Berang in Hulu Terengganu district, Terengganu.
The man was sentenced to 16 years in prison and 10 strokes of the cane for each of the rape charges. He was also given a seven-year prison sentence and two strokes of the cane for the sodomy offence.
