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Man Sentenced to Jail for Assaulting Wife
December 11th, 2016 | 09:18 AM | 2181 views
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
The Magistrate's Court yesterday sentenced a uniformed man to five months' jail after he pleaded guilty last Monday to assaulting and blackmailing his wife.
According to the statement of facts presented by DPP Zuraidah Sidek, Muhammad Hafiz bin Mohamad Junaidi, 24, became enraged when his wife accused him of having an. affair, which led to an argument between the couple in their bedroom at a house in Kampong Pekilong, Muara, which they were sharing with other family members, at 3.20pm on October 1.
Muhammad Hafiz repeatedly slapped his 23-year-old wife, and hit her on the forehead with a sheathed machete.
She tried to escape, but he kicked her twice on the chest and pulled her hair.
He then pushed his wife against a wall and strangled her, after which he hit her repeatedly with the sheathed machete and assaulted her with his bare hands.
The victim was subjected to more assaults when Muhammad Hafiz pushed her to the floor, and stamped on her head and stomach.
He also took a heated clothes iron and pressed it on her thighs, feet and face.
He only stopped when the other family members knocked ,on their door upon hearing the victim's cries.
She managed to escape when he answered the door.
Fearing for her life, she reported the assault to the police and went to stay with her parents in Kuala Belait.
At 8pm on October 17, she received a message from her husband, in which he threatened to upload her nude photos and video onto Facebook if she did not withdraw the police report.
The nude pictures and video of the victim had been taken sometime in 2015.
The victim lodged another police report, which led to Muhammad Hafiz's arrest by the Women and Children's Abuse Investigation Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Magistrate Dewi Norleláwati binti Haji Abdul Hamid presided over the case.
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