KUALA LUMPUR: The clerk, who was sentenced to six years in jail and despatched straight to jail for driving her automotive into eight youngsters racing modified bicycles in a darkish road, will be offered legal assistance, says MCA.
Taking a stance to assist 27-year-old Sam Ke Ting (pic), who was not granted bail, MCA’s Legal Affairs Bureau chairman Datuk Tay Puay Chuan stated his staff would contact her household to make the mandatory preparations.
He stated MCA would supply her legal assistance together with helping her with an enchantment to guarantee she was given honest and neutral illustration.
“The High Court’s choice is a setback for Sam, and we are going to supply her the legal help she wants.
“Not solely did the High Court overrule the 2 Magistrate’s Courts’ earlier findings this time, however refused to grant her bail.
“We imagine the regulation is honest and can undertake each effort to help her (Sam) in her enchantment,” he stated in a press release on Wednesday (April 13).
Earlier on Wednesday, Sam was jailed for six years over a deadly street accident that resulted within the loss of life of eight youngsters in Jalan Lingkaran Dalam, Johor Baru, at 3.20am on Feb 18, 2017, after two Magistrate Courts had earlier acquitted her on the cost.
This got here after the prosecution was profitable in its second enchantment in opposition to a Magistrate’s Court choice to acquit and discharge Sam, in October final yr (2021) on a cost of reckless or harmful driving.
On Oct 28, 2019, a Magistrate’s Court right here acquitted and discharged Sam of the cost on the finish of the prosecution’s case with out calling for her defence.
She was charged underneath Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987.
MCA Youth Legal Bureau chairman Ryan Ho chimed in a separate assertion saying the High Court ought to take into account the hazards of “basikal lajak” which endangers the protection of street customers.
“In deciding on the attribution of accountability on this case, the High Court ought to have taken under consideration the difficulty of modified bicycles which endanger the protection of street customers, in addition to the query as to why the youngsters weren’t indoors throughout these wee hours of the morning, however as a substitute, had been racing on the street,” he stated.
Ho stated MCA would be in contact with Sam’s household for legal assistance.
