Stingray's tail lands man in prison for five years

A construction worker was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and one stroke of the rotan by the Pasir Mas Sessions Court in Kelantan for possession of a dangerous weapon - a stingray’s tail.

The accused, 26-year-old Abdul Halim Samsuddin, who did not have a lawyer, pleaded guilty before Sessions Court Judge Badrul Munir Mohd Hamdy.

He was charged under