Student Jailed 7 Days And Fined RM800 For Bringing Homemade Cake To Her Boyfriend
The public prosecutor said that people should be reminded to not take the MCO lightly.
By May Vin Ang — 24 Apr 2020, 11:39 AM
A private university student was jailed seven days and fined RM800 for leaving home to present a cake she had baked to her boyfriend
According to New Straits Times, Magistrate Ellyna Othman said the 22-year-old had defied the Movement Control Order (MCO) by doing so.
The judge ordered the woman to serve the jail term from the date of the arrest on Saturday, 18 April, and warned that it could be extended to two months if she failed to pay the fine.
Meanwhile, the woman's boyfriend, also of the same age, was fined RM1,000 or two months' jail for defying the MCO and driving all the way from his home to try the cake.
Both of them pleaded guilty after the charges were read out separately.
Police found them seated in a car and eating the cake by the side of the road at about 9pm on Saturday night
The offence was committed along Jalan SP1/8 Subang Perdana.
The woman told the police that she had left her home which was about 800m from where the couple were detained, to give the cake to her boyfriend.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend had driven 8km from his home to try the cake she had baked.
The couple's lawyer, Shalehhuddin Salam, pleaded for a lenient sentence as both accused did not intend to flout the MCO but were caught up by circumstances
He also informed the magistrate that it was his clients' first offence.
However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Nur Syazwanie Marizan argued that the accused must be taught a lesson and pressed for a stiff sentence.
She said that people should be reminded to not take the MCO lightly.
"The female accused gave an absolutely unreasonable excuse for defying the MCO. She left her house to meet her boyfriend and give him a cake which she had baked," she said.
"The people must be reminded that they cannot simply defy the MCO as it could lead to new clusters of COVID-19 emerging."
