KLANG: A businessman who insulted, injured and threatened his two bodyguards for fasting in 2021 has been sentenced to more than six years in jail and fined RM22,000.
Magistrate Siti Zubaidah Mahat found Chung Chee Yang, 47, guilty of wounding the religious feelings of his two Muslim bodyguards with his conduct, as well as exerting criminal intimidation and hurting one of the men by pointing a gun at him.
The court also rejected the application made by Chung’s counsel Abdul Hakeem Aiman for a stay of execution of the prison sentence.
The court also ordered the accused to serve an additional 21 months in prison if he fails to pay the fine, and directed him to serve the prison term consecutively from the day of sentencing.
Chung had committed the offence between 9.30pm and 10.30pm on April 13, 2021, by intimidating Mohd Azminizam Zulkepli, 48, with a gun and threatening to harm him for fasting.
For this he was jailed for five years and fined RM10,000 in default of 12 months’ imprisonment. He was also slapped with another 10 months’ imprisonment and fined RM2,000 in default of three months’ jail for causing hurt to the bodyguard.
Chung was also imposed a one-year jail term and fined RM10,000 in default of six months’ imprisonment for deliberately intending to wound the religious feelings of Azminizam and his colleague Ahmad Shamsuri Zailani, 31, by uttering blasphemous words and telling them not to fast if they wanted to be under his employment.
DPP Nuruljannah Aimi in her submission asked for a maximum sentence and added that Azminizam had been traumatised when Chung, who did not have a licence to handle a gun, snatched his (Azminizam’s) gun and pointed it at him at close range.
Abdul Hakeem pleaded for a lenient sentence and said Chung suffered from asthma and was also a diabetic and hence was on insulin as well as six types of medication.
He also said he would file a notice of appeal on the court’s decision and sentencing.
