Ex-driver, cook jailed 5 years for confining sales engineer
Duo plead guilty to reduced charge after being accused of kidnap to obtain RM1.12 million ransom.
In the Kuala Lumpur High Court, former e-hailing driver Wong Guo Song and former cook Yong Zi Hui were sentenced to five years each in prison. The court found them guilty of wrongfully confining sales engineer Lau Jia Kin three years ago on April 29, 2023. Wong and Yong pleaded guilty to an alternative charge under Section 365 of the Penal Code, after initially being charged under Section 3 of the Kidnapping Act for demanding a RM1.12 million ransom.
The court ordered their sentences to start from their arrest dates in 2023. Judge Noor Ruwena Nurdin emphasized the importance of the sentences serving as a lesson to the duo, warning them to avoid associating with the "wrong group of friends" in the future.
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