Man gets 8 years' jail for abusing child, hiding body in fish barrel

An unemployed man was sentenced to eight years’ jail by the Appeals Court in Putrajaya today for abusing a two-year-old boy whose body was found hidden in an ice-filled fish barrel, five years ago.

A three-member bench led by Justice Kamaludin Md Said, passed the sentence on Mohd Affandi Fauzi Ramlee, 39, after he pleaded guilty to the alternative charge and ordered the man to serve the sentence from today.

The man initially faced a charge of...