A 45-year-old man was ordered to serve 24 years in jail beginning today for three counts of sexually assaulting his teenage daughter at their home in Muar seven years ago.
A three-member Court of Appeal bench, chaired by Justice Azman Abdullah, dismissed the man’s final appeal against conviction and sentence.
He had been on a RM15,000 bail pending the outcome of the appeal.
Justice Noorin Badaruddin, who read the broad grounds, said the prosecution’s case was intact despite minor discrepancies in the testimonies of its witnesses.
“It is best left to the trial judge, who had the audiovisual advantage to determine the demeanour of witnesses,” she said, adding that an appellate court would be slow to disturb the finding of the trial court.
Also on the panel hearing the appeal was Justice Zaini Mazlan.
Noorin said…