Published: Friday April 12, 2013 MYT 9:28:00 PM
Updated: Friday April 12, 2013 MYT 9:45:36 PM
Cook gets 17 years’ jail, four strokes for rape and robbery
By MAIZATUL NAZLINA
PETALING JAYA: A cook was sentenced by a Sessions Court here to 17 years in jail and four strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty of trespassing, and robbing and raping a boutique employee two years ago.
Judge Balqis Aini Mohd Ali meted out the sentences after the prosecution succeeded in establishing a prima facie case against Yusouf Mohd Haflan, 28, by end of the defence case.
Yusouf was also jailed two years and fined RM1,000, in default three months' jail, for trespassing into the victim's house.
He was also sentenced to six years' jail and ordered to be whipped once for robbing the 20-year-old victim of six handphones and a digital camera, among others.
He committed these two offences with two other accomplices who were still at large.
For the third charge of raping the victim, he was jailed nine years and ordered to receive three strokes of the rotan.
The offences were committed at Pelangi Apartment, Jalan PJU 6, Persiaran Surian Pelangi Damansara, here between 3am and 11pm on July 31, 2011.
Judge Balqis Aini also ordered Yusouf to pay RM1,000 in costs and RM2,000 compensation to the victim. The sentences were to run concurrently from Friday.
Earlier, in mitigation, counsel Abdul Rashid Tasin, who appeared for Yusouf, urged the court to impose lighter sentence as his client had a wife and two children.
Deputy public prosecutor Zhafran Rahim Hamzah submitted that the court should impose a harsher sentence as it involved a serious offence, a full hearing case which took two years and the trauma suffered by the victim.
Later, the court granted Abdul Rashid's application for a stay of execution pending an appeal but the bail was increased to RM22,500 from RM19,500.
A total of 12 prosecution and two defence witnesses testified.
