SIBU: A 37-year-old man who pleaded responsible to arson has been sentenced to 2 years’ jail by the Periods Court docket right here.
Periods decide Marutin Pagan, in passing the sentence on Friday (Oct 22), ordered that the jail time period of the accused, Andrew Sanggau, take impact from the date of his arrest on Oct 13.
The accused was charged beneath Part 436 of the Penal Code for inflicting mischief by setting fireplace to a home.
Based on the info of the case, the unnamed complainant was at work at 12.12pm on Oct 13 when his employer instructed him that his rented home at Lane 5, Bukit Lima Timur, had been set on fireplace by an unknown individual.
He rushed residence and noticed firemen attempting to douse the flames. Nevertheless 90% of his belongings have been destroyed within the fireplace together with garments, kitchen utensils, dishes and his kids’s college books.
Complete losses have been estimated at RM9,000.
Police investigations discovered that three of the complainant’s neighbours witnessed the incident, with certainly one of them utilizing his cell phone to document a video of the accused getting into the premises.
Andrew then reportedly eliminated a mattress and set fireplace to the home.
Appearing on info acquired from the general public, a police group went to a home in the identical space and arrested Andrew at about 5pm the identical day.
