Ex-rigger's Appeal Dismissed
By Rol Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - Judge Dato Steven Chong dismissed a 33-year-old ex- oil rigger's appeal in the High Court against his sentence the Magistrate's Court imposed earlier.

The appellant, Kamsul Mustafa was convicted on his own plea of three counts of consuming Methylamphetamine, a class A controlled drug.

Originally the Magistrate, Radin Safiee Radin Mas Basiuni, sentenced the appellant to three-and-a-half years imprisonment on each count to run concurrently.

According to the statement of facts, all the three offences were committed in July two years ago, whilst he was placed under the supervision of the Narcotics Control Bureau.

The supervision order was made after the appellant was convicted of a section 6(b) offence under the MDA, five months before he committed the offence, for which he was fined $1,000.

"Having regard to the appellant's commission of three drug consumption offences in one month, and within a period of less than five months from his previous conviction for a similar offence, I do not think the sentence is in the least excessive," Judge Steven Chong said before dismissing the appeal. (Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin)

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