Appeal court reduces sentence for sex offender

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The Court of Appeal revised the sentence of a sex offender after it had found it “excessive”.

Khairul Bashar, who was sentenced to a six-year-and-six-month jail time with three strokes of the cane for outraging the modesty of a 12-year-old girl and taking obscene photos of her inside a public toilet, had his sentence reduced to four years of jail and two strokes of the cane.

More details in Wednesday’s Borneo Bulletin.