Habitual flasher gets jail term and caning

KUCHING: A habitual offender who made off with a university student’s bag after flashing at her will pay for his crime, this time in prison.

The 20-year-old vegetable farmer was handed a 24-month jail term and two strokes of the cane for robbing the 23-year-old woman.

Sessions Court Judge Iris Awen Jon ordered him to begin serving the prison sentence from Tuesday (Jan 9), after hearing the young offender’s social report from the Department of Social Welfare.

He had stood accused of robbing the 23-year-old of her identification card, ATM card, education savings card, university student card and RM300.

He committed the offence in front of a business premises on Stephen Yong Road, around 9.15 p.m on Feb 23 last year.

The victim told police she was flashed at by an unknown man who asked for money. He then grabbed her bag and fled.

He was apprehended by police on Feb 26, around 2.40 a.m. at a residence in Kampung Kuap, Jalan Penrissen.

The prosecution was handled by Deputy Public Prosecutor Ruvinasini Pandian.

Earlier, on May 25, 2023, three separate Magistrates’ Courts ordered the accused sent to the Henry Gurney School until he reaches the age of 21 on six charges of molestation, indecency and house intrusion.

He had exposed himself to four different women aged 20 to 35 on December 2022, March 24, 2023, and April 1, 2023.

He was also charged with violating the honour of a foreign woman on the staircase of a building in MJC Batu Kawa, around 7.30 pm on April 8, 2023.

Additionally, the young offender was charged with trespassing into the house of a 73-year-old man in Taman Kong Tiong, Stephen Yong Road, around 10.30 p.m on Dec 6, 2022.