Mohamad Alaina bin Ibrahim, a 42- year-old local man, was recently sentenced to eight years and six months in jail along with six strokes of the cane after being found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend with multiple weapons and wrongfully confining her to a room. The victim was reported to have suffered severe injuries from […]
In a series of events, a woman yesterday took a tight turn from denying to pleading guilty mid trial on a charge of disseminating a false statement likely to cause alarm. Hajah Faizah binti Haji Abdul Gapar had claimed trial, and challenged the ingredients of the charge. Defence Counsel Pengiran Shahyzul bin Pengiran Abdul Rahman […]
The Intermediate Court recently sentenced a local man to nine years and six months’ jail, with four whippings after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting and sodomising his nephew. The defendant, whose name is withheld, claimed trial to Deputy Public Prosecutor Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali’s charges. It was earlier alleged the defendant […]
In the first-of-its-kind hearing on Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) Court Martial’s decision in handing a 20-year sentence with eight whippings to a uniformed personnel on multiple charges of sodomy and sexual assault of numerous male army recruits. Mohammad Khairul Hazwan bin Haji Maidin, an RBAF Captain at […]
Satan has become one of the most popular figures in modern religion and pop culture, but his appearances in religious texts tend to be brief and somewhat