KOTA KINABALU: An unemployed woman has been fined RM4,500 or 10 months' jail for threatening her father with a knife.
Yap Lay Ying, 52, who was charged with criminal intimidation, pleaded guilty to the charge before Magistrate Marilyn Kelvin on Wednesday (April 8).
She was accused of threatening her father at a house in Wijaya Park, Menggatal, at around 9.30pm on March 30 after he refused to give her money.
Her father lodged a police report and she was arrested later the same night. The knife was also seized.
