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‘You are lucky you didn’t end up as corpses’: Judge’s grim warning to couple who used a Melaka mosque mortuary for their affair

Malaysia Times desk Original: Malay Mail 8/13 17:50 X
‘You are lucky you didn’t end up as corpses’: Judge’s grim warning to couple who used a Melaka mosque mortuary for their affair
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MELAKA, Aug 13 — When a former mosque caretaker and a cleaner turned a mortuary room into the setting for their secret affair, they never imagined a judge would remind them just...

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The Melaka Syariah High Court today fined the pair RM5,000 each, in default 18 months’ jail, after they pleaded guilty to committing illicit sex inside the mortuary room of Masjid Al-Ibadah in Kampung Bukit Piatu, The Star reported.

“You are lucky you did not end up as corpses while committing the act. Otherwise, you could have been washed there straight away,” Judge Mawardi Che Man was quoted as saying before passing sentence.

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Malay Mail
Originally published
Aug 13, 2026
Updated here
Aug 15, 2026
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