Cop slashing grass-cutter gets eight months' jail


KUANTAN: A grass-cutter was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty in the Magistrate's Court here on Friday (Aug 8) to injuring a police corporal with a machete last Saturday (Aug 2).

Magistrate Ellyna Othman passed the sentence on Muhamad Firdaus Abdul Hamid, 37, and ordered his jail term to start from the date of his arrest on Aug 2.

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