Air-Con Thieves In Hot Soup
By Md Ezam

Bandar Seri Begawan - The youngsters who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court a week ago to committing theft of three air conditioners were punished yesterday.

However, Senior Magistrate Hj Abdullah Soefri released the 16-year-old boy on bond of good behaviour.

Saiful Rizal Osman, 21, a 16 year-old boy and Ak Mohd Nurhani Rudi Adiman, 20, had to wait for their sentence for a week, pending the school report of the 16-year-old boy, who the court found that he had a good discipline record and good results.

With effect from yesterday, Saiful had to serve six months in jail, while the 16-year-old boy was released on bond of a good behaviour for a year with a surety of $5,000. Nurhani was sentenced to two months jail.

However, Nurhani was additionally sentenced to another two months after he pleaded guilty to committing theft of a Sony Playstation II. Magistrate Abdullah ordered for the sentence to run consecutively, thus the total jail being four months.

As revealed in the statement of facts, the offence occurred on December 11, last year. The 16-year-old boy, together with Saiful and Nurhani went to a terrace house near the Tiong Hin Supermarket in Jerudong using a Suzuki Vitara driven by the boy, the Police Prosecuting officer told the court.

Having arrived at the area, the boy dropped both Saiful and Nurhani off at a junction leading to the terrace house. Before he left, they asked him to pick them up sometime at 7am the next day.

The two then proceeded straight towards one of the unoccupied terrace houses, through the main gate and went to the backyard to find a way to enter the house. Nurhani then entered the house through the maid's room by removing the sliding glass of the window. His accomplice followed him.

Once they were inside the maid's room, they removed one window air-con.

They proceeded downstairs and then took two window air-cons from the two bedrooms. Later they headed to the living room placing the stolen items there and went to sleep.

Shortly after that, Nurhani woke up and when he discovered that there was no sign of the boy's car around he started to look around.

Then he decided to enter another unoccupied terrace house at the same place.

He entered the house through the hole of an air-con, which was covered only with plywood. Having entered the house he then went to the living room and took the Sony Playstation II placed on top of the table.

Investigations revealed that the three air-cons was sold to a Filipino at $100 each while Nurhani also sold the Sony Playstation II to the same man for $50, the court heard. (Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin)

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