KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — An elderly man was fined RM1,500 by the Magistrate’s Court today after he plead guilty to hitting a man during a fight over a parking space two months ago.
Magistrate Illi Marisqa Khalizan pronounced sentence on Ng Heng Cye, 68, and ordered him to be jailed for a month if he failed to pay the fine.
The accused plead guilty to hitting Leong Chee Liang, 42, causing injury to the victim’s right eye, his neck, right knee, and right hand at the roadside of Jalan Perisa 1, Brickfields, at 7.34am on October 25, after he was charged under Section 323 of the Penal Code.
According to the case facts, a scuffle occurred at the parking lot when Ng and the victim took two parking spaces, causing the accused to alight from his car and ask that the victim move his vehicle.
The victim got angry instead and there was a scuffle between them, resulting in the guilty party hitting the victim.
Deputy public prosecutor Syafika Azwa Fikri had requested for a sentence commensurate with the crime as a lesson, while defence counsel Syazwani Mohd Zawawi urged for a lenient sentence on the reason that his client was an unemployed senior citizen.
— Bernama
