Broke fishing duo jail term 'severely excessive' - Taiping High Court

CORONAVIRUS | The High Court in Taiping said it revised the sentence against the fishing duo for violating the movement control order (MCO) because the three months' jail was too “harsh and severely excessive”.

In a written judgment released yesterday, Judicial Commissioner Muniandy Kannyappan gave this as one of the grounds for reducing the sentence on Chin Chee Wei and Chong Poh Wah from Sungai Siput, Perak, to community service...