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KUANTAN: The Supreme Court has increased the fine of RM 100 imposed on a young man who left his home to take his girlfriend’s body to a garage near their home to RM 1000 after a traffic accident last year.
He was fined for violating the motion control order (MCO) at 3.15am on April 12 of last year.
High Court Judge Zainal Azman Ab Aziz issued the ruling after allowing the prosecution’s appeal against the RM 100 fine imposed on the 17-year-old by the Rompin trial court on July 16 last year, following pleading guilty to violating the MCO for being out of the home at the time.
In today’s proceedings, only the parties involved were allowed to enter the courtroom.
Attorney Hazwan Hamdan, representing the youth, later told the media that Zainal Azman had ruled that the sentence needed to be modified.
The court found that the amount of the fine should be increased to 1,000 ringgit as stipulated in the 2020 Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (Measures within local infected areas) Regulations, or “could be used as a benchmark by others matches to get a lower fine in the future, ”he said.
The judge also ordered the Form Five student to serve a month in jail if he did not pay the fine. It is understood that his brother paid the fine.
However, the court rejected the prosecution’s appeal for the adolescent to perform community service for 120 hours for a period of 18 months; Attend the interactive workshop of the Department of Social Welfare and pay RM3,000 in compensation to the family of your late girlfriend.
Deputy Prosecutor Nasrul Hadi Abdul Ghani, in a written communication, said that the 100 RM sentence was too low and he feared it would be used as a benchmark for those who violated the MCO, and was against the MCO’s goal of curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, lawyer Ahmad Deniel Roslan, who also represented the teenager in a written submission, argued that there was no need to amend the magistrates court’s ruling as his client had no criminal record and pleaded guilty at an early stage.
“What is most important is that the respondent can continue studying and take the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) exam this year. In fact, the defendant and his family have also met with the family of the deceased girl to apologize for the incident, ”he said.
