Unemployed man jailed a month for attempted suicide

Unemployed man jailed a month for attempted suicide

Jacob Stanley pleads guilty to attempted suicide by using fragments of a broken window to stab himself.

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KUALA LUMPUR:
An unemployed man who attempted suicide by using fragments of a broken window to stab himself was sentenced to a month’s jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today.

Magistrate Aina Azahra Arifin handed down the sentence on Jacob Stanley, 42, after he pleaded guilty to committing the act at a low-cost flat unit in Sentul here at 11pm on May 17.

The charge was framed under Section 309 of the Penal Code which provides for imprisonment for up to a year, a fine, or both upon conviction.

In the same court, a disabled man was fined RM300 in lieu of a month’s jail for fraudulent possession of RM13,130 in his Maybank account and failing to satisfactorily account for how the money came to be there.

Mohamad Shahrul Rosli, 25, pleaded guilty to committing the offence at a restaurant in Sri Petaling, Brickfields here, between April 20 and May 10, 2016.

The charge against him was framed under Section 29 (1) of the Minor Offences Act 1955.

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