Youth pleads guilty to committing animal cruelty

A man pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court in Johor Bahru today to a charge of committing cruelty to a dog.

However, judge Che Wan Zaidi Che Wan Ibrahim postponed the sentencing on Braden Yap Hong Sheng to April 18 as his lawyer, GK Sritharan, was away in the Philippines.

The 19-year-old man was...