Jobless man gets six years’ jail and rotan for drug use

KUALA LUMPUR: A 35-year-old unemployed man on trial for drug use claimed that a urine test result was not his but that of another man who had passed him the tainted body waste.

Mohd Ismail Shukri, in his defence, said that he was not alone when he had to urinate into a container at the police station for the test.

He said a man next to him in the toilet gave him his urine when Mohd Ismail complained that he could not urinate.

The Sessions Court here, however, ruled that his defence did not raise doubt in the prosecution’s case.

Mohd Ismail, who was unrepresented, asked for a final chance.

“I want to get married next year. This is my future. I ask for a lenient sentence and for my sentence to start from the date of my arrest.

“I also ask to be incarcerated at the Sungai Buloh prison so that it is easy for my family to visit me,” he said yesterday.

DPP Siti Aisyah Ahmad asked the court to mete out a just sentence as the accused had nine criminal cases.

“This is the third time he has been arrested for being tested positive for drugs,” she said.

Judge Emelia Kaswati Mohamad Khalid found the accused guilty as charged.

“I hereby sentence you to six years’ jail from today (yesterday) and two strokes of the rotan,” she said.

Mohd Ismail was found guilty of self-administering morphine into his body at level 5, IPD Sentul’s narcotics investigation division office at 3.40pm on Nov 3 last year.

The offence under Section 39C(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act provides for imprisonment between five and seven years and up to three strokes of the rotan.