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Newspaper Article: Higher Jail Term For Farmhands - Source of Article The Star

SHAH LAM: Two farmhands convicted of disposing evidence in the murder of cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others have been slapped with higher jail terms – 20 years each.

High Court Justice Mohtarudin Baki ruled that a Telok Datok magistrate’s court had erred in handing down a seven-year jail term earlier on K. Sarawanan, 20, and U. Suresh, 27.

 

Off to jail: Sarawanan (second from left) and Suresh being

escorted out of the Shah Alam High Court

yesterday. — Bernama

 

The court had earlier allowed a judicial review application challenging the magistrate’s sentence before amending the seven-year jail term to five on each of the four counts. He ordered the sentence to run consecutively from the date of arrest.

Justice Mohtarudin said that any right-thinking person would agree that a five-year imprisonment was “manifestly inadequate” considering the gravity of the offences.
The two men had pleaded guilty on Oct 15 last year to four counts of disposing of evidence of the murder under Section 201 of the Penal Code.

Sarawanan was charged with burning the bodies of Sosilawati, 47, CIMB bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, and driver Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44, while Suresh was charged with disposing of the ashes.
They were among eight people arrested by police between Sept 9 and 12, 2010, in connection with the disappearance of Sosilawati and three others on Aug 30, 2010.
Magistrate Hurman Hussain had sentenced them to seven years in jail each for the four charges, which were to run concurrently.

The court also dismissed Sarawanan’s appeal for his conviction to be overturned after finding that there was no miscarriage of justice.
Depuy public prosecutors Saiful Edris Zainuddin and Idham Abd Ghani prosecuted while the two accused were represented by lawyer A.S. Dhaliwal.

Murders
Murders are very offensive to innocent people out there who works hard to live life but ends up killed for someone else' survival. Most criminals murder when they have no other choice. Some avenge on people who betrayed them. Or murder only because of jealousy. Losing a life is a big thing, we only get ONE. When someone's murdered, there's no way of bringing them back. Accidents happen, when someone murders the wrong person; or when someone wants to injure someone badly but accidentally caused death.

Murderers should be set on death penalty as return for taking a life away. Death penalty should take place most often in over populated countries, or very serious crimes like "Murder".

Statistics
As for murder, the number of incidents has been fluctuating between 500 to 600 cases per year, while year 2006 recorded the highest number: 604 cases.
Next, rape cases are seeing a steady increment from year 2000: 1210 cases in 2000 to 2435 cases in year 2006, double the cases in 6 years period.
The robbery done by single and unarmed person is seeing a drastic increase: a jump of around 12 000 cases in year 2000 to about 18 000 cases in year 2006.

Offences List

In your groups arrange the ten bulleted acts above in number order in terms of the seriousness of the offecse with 1 being your highest and most serious offence and 10 being your lowest and most trivial (least important) offence.

Most Serious
 ||  Driving under the influence of drugs √ (A year of Prison + Fine) <Extend of time and increase of Fine>
 ||  Drink driving √  (A year of Prison + Fine) <Extend of time and increase of Fine>
 ||  Shouting racist abuse √ (6 months of Prison) <Extend of time>
 ||  Solvent abuse √ ∆ (4 months of Prison) <Extend of time>
 ||  Breaking into a car √ (2 months of Prison) <Extend of time>
 ||  Shoplifting √ (2 months of Prison) <Extend of time>
 ||  Being sold alcohol in a bar whilst under the age limit √ (An expensive Fine) <Increase of Fine>
 ||  Picking a fight √ (Prison depending on the fight) <Extend of time>
 ||  Urinating against a wall ∆ (Public cleaning service) <Extend of time>
 ||  Doing a paper round at the age of 11 ∆ (Warning) <Prison>
Least Serious

Now consider the following questions:
Which of these are crimes? √
Which of them, if any, are victimless? ∆
What kinds of punishment would you give to these offences? (Answer)
How should repeat offenders be dealt with? <Answer>

Did you find rating the offences easy or difficult as an individual? Why?
No, because it is just my own opinion in things which doesn't include other people's perspectives.
Did you find rating the offences easy or difficult in a group? Why?
Yes, because everyone of us has different experience in those crimes. Some have experienced a fight which would make them more serious about "picking a fight". Some doesn't and preferred it to be less serious.
What offences caused the most conflict/discussion? Why?
Racism caused the most discussion. This is because some of us are at different race and was offended by racism before in their life. They take it seriously and get offended easily. Some think that racism are just words that doesn't mean anything to them.
What factors do we need to consider when looking at people's perceptions of crimes/offences?
The personal experience someone has to an offence.
Depends on the area someone think of.
Depends on the country someone think of.

Some Surprising Facts about Crime!

        Surprising                Not Surprising

You're 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA than in France

If you're in Montserrat, watch your back! Nearly 1% of the population are police officers.

Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.

Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.

America puts many more of its citizens in prison than any other nation.

Two-thirds of the world's kidnappings occur in Colombia.

Venezuela is one of the happiest and most murderous places in the world.

Russia has almost twice as many judges and magistrates as the United States. Meanwhile, the United States has 8 times as much crime.

In the Maldives, there are more than 2 jails for every 1000 people.

One in every three Australians is a victim of crime.

In pure number terms, more crimes are committed in America than in any other nation. The same goes for burglaries, car thefts, rapes and assaults.

The United States puts 0.7 % of its population in Prison - a vastly higher percentage than any other nation.

India’s criminal courts acquitted over a million defendants in 1999, more than the next 48 surveyed countries combined.

Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only six countries: Thailand, , Qatar, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Singapore.

People trust Swedes! Swedish companies are the world’s least-likely to be perceived as paying bribes.

84% of people in Finland feel that they are at a low risk of experiencing a burglary - but just look at how many burglaries they have!

Law and Criminality

My ideas of LAW and CRIMINALITY.

What?

Law is a set of rules made to prevent or reduce criminality. Criminality is when someone abuses the law by doing something against it.

Who?

Laws are made differently in different places. For example, in Malaysia, the laws are set by the government.

Laws are applied to everyone in the country: the public, organisations, government, businesses, throughout the country.

Why?

Laws are firstly made because of the crimes people make such as robbery, kidnapping and more. Therefore, laws were made to reduce the damage. People who break the rules (against the law) could be sent to jail.

Where?

Laws are set in every single country, also international law which applies for all countries.

Some quotes

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Law and justice are not always the same.

Gloria Steinem

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

William Pitt, the Elder

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Lydia Maria Child

Ignorance of the law, which everybody is supposed to know, does not constitute an excuse.

Legal maxim

Crime
The main reason why crimes occur is because the criminals are in need of money or food and water. They start to steal/rob, and sometimes hurt or kidnap others for ransom which may cause innocents to be unfortunate.
But some crimes occur for their own leisure. Some can work but are lazy. Some are capable but lazy. Some just want to have fun and enjoy life doing crimes. Some are not raised correctly.
Crime in Malaysia could be bad for some people from better countries like London, but also can be considered good for other people from more violent countries Kenya. 

 

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