High Court slashes man’s rape sentence from 10 years to one, citing youth and rehabilitation

In allowing the 23-year-old’s appeal against the penalty, Judicial Commissioner Samry Masri ruled that the Sessions Court had failed to give adequate weight to the accused’s youth, his clean record as a first offender, and his strong prospects for rehabilitation, FMT reported.

The accused was 19 years old when he committed the offences on October 8 and October 29, 2022. At the time, he worked in the dining hall of a residential school in Kuantan where the 15-year-old complainant, identified in court documents as SP4, was a student.

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