KUALA LUMPUR, — A retired Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) personnel was sentenced to five months jail by the Magistrate’s Court here after he pleaded guilty to two counts of drug possession in September.
Magistrate S.Mageswary meted out the sentence on Lee Beng Song, 67, and ordered him to serve the jail sentence from the date of arrest on Sept 5.
Lee was charged with possessing heroin and monoacetylmorphine weighing 1.7 grammes in Jalan Mahkota, Cheras here at 11 am on Sept 5 under Section 12 (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act (ADB) 1952 and punishable under Section 12 (3) of the same Act.
The man was also sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and two years’ police supervision by the National Anti-Drug Board for administering morphine to himself on the same day at 1.20 pm at the Narcotics Crime Investigation Department in Cheras, here, under Section 15(1 )(a) of the ADB 1952.
However, the accused will have to serve only five months in jail after the court ordered that the sentence to run concurrently.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Sareeka Balakishnan asked for a deterrent sentence as a lesson for the accused.
In the mitigation, lawyer Edwin Tomas from the National Legal Aid Foundation (YBGK) representing accused, pleaded for a lighter sentence on the grounds that his client had no family members and suffered from chronic high blood pressure.
— Bernama
