YAM files for appeal

YANG Amat Mulia Pengiran Muda Abdul Mu’min will be appealing against his eight weeks jail term after the High Court yesterday granted the application for leave out of time to appeal.

On February 3, senior magistrate Hj Nabil Daraina PDH Badaruddin sentenced the defendant to eight weeks in jail after the defendant pleaded guilty to the charges of providing false information to the police, driving while under disqualification and for driving without insurance on November 19, 2014.

The defendant was given two weeks to file in the notice of appeal.

The case was subsequently brought up to the High Court for defence counsel Balendran Balasingam of Ho & Siong to apply for leave out of time to appeal.

At the High Court yesterday, Justice Dato Paduka Hairol Arni Hj Abd Majid heard the application from defence counsel Balendran and allowed the defendant to appeal against the sentence and further ordered that the notice of appeal should be filed in within the week. The court further allowed the defence counsel’s application for a stay of execution pending the appeal.

During the proceedings, Deputy Public Prosecutors Hjh Anifa Rafiza Hj Abd Ghani and Dk Siti Nurul Fairuz Pg Rosli did not raise any objection on both of the defence counsel’s application.

The court also granted the prosecution’s application for the defendant to be released on bail set at $10,000 and one local surety pending the appeal hearing at the High Court.


Sumber - The Brunei Times