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Malaysia: Habitual offender unfazed by 13-year jail term
Malay Mail
Thursday 16 Mar 2006 Mohd Zailani Makhtar, a 44-year-old father of four, displayed no emotion when he was sentenced to 13 years’ jail and 10 strokes of the rotan for dadah possession yesterday. He did not seem perturbed as he has been in and out of jail three times before for the same offence. The second-hand goods trader from Kelantan yesterday pleaded guilty to four alternative charges of possessing 288 grammes of cannabis, 0.77grammes of methamphetamine, a mixture of heroin and monoacetylmorphines weighing 0.27grammes and 0.03 grammes of ketamine. He was caught with the substances near the Pantai Dalam Komuter station about noon on Jan 28, 2003. In passing sentence, judge Datuk Abdull Hamid Embong said: “You are lucky that the prosecution has amended the charges or you would have been sent to the gallows. It is the court’s duty to protect the public from being victims of drug abuse. People like you should be banished from society.” Abdull Hamid sentenced the accused to 11 years’ jail from the date of arrest and ordered him to be whipped 10 times for possessing cannabis, and two years each for the other three offences. The two-year jail terms are to run concurrently after the first 11 years are served. Earlier, his counsel Hazman Ahmad pleaded for leniency as the accused had saved the court’s time by pleading guilty. He also asked the court to mete a concurrent sentence for all four charges from the date of arrest. DPP Shamsul Sulaiman, on the other hand, urged the court for a stiff sentence as Mohd Zailani was found with four different drugs. “He also has three previous convictions for heroin possession between 1992 and 2000,” he said.
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