Court of Appeal upholds father’s 50 years jail sentence for incest

The Court of Appeal today upheld the 50-year-jail sentence imposed on a man convicted of two counts of incest with his 14-year-old daughter.

A three-member bench comprising Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Azmi Ariffin and High Court judge Noordin Badaruddin, in dismissing the 45-year-old man’s appeal for a reduction of his jail sentence, however, allowed his appeal for the 20 whipping sentences imposed on him by the Session Court to 10 strokes...