Mohamad Alaina bin Ibrahim, a 42- year-old local man, was recently sentenced to eight years and six months in jail along with six strokes of the cane after being found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend with multiple weapons and wrongfully confining her to a room. The victim was reported to have suffered severe injuries from […]
The Intermediate Court recently sentenced a local man to nine years and six months’ jail, with four whippings after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting and sodomising his nephew. The defendant, whose name is withheld, claimed trial to Deputy Public Prosecutor Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali’s charges. It was earlier alleged the defendant […]
In the first-of-its-kind hearing on Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) Court Martial’s decision in handing a 20-year sentence with eight whippings to a uniformed personnel on multiple charges of sodomy and sexual assault of numerous male army recruits. Mohammad Khairul Hazwan bin Haji Maidin, an RBAF Captain at […]
A 26-year-old local man was sentenced recently to three years and eight months’ jail and three strokes of the cane for sexually assaulting his 13-year-old foster brother. The defendant, whose name is withheld for the victim’s privacy had earlier plead guilty to the assault charge, while denying a charge of sodomising the victim in 2015. […]
The Intermediate Court yesterday sentenced an Indonesian maid to a year’s jail for physically abusing a four-year-old child. Sriyani, 42, pleaded guilty on June 22 to the charge of assaulting her employer’s son, who was also living with autism. On handing the sentence yesterday, Judge Pengiran Masni binti Pengiran Haji Bahar said that her decision […]