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Article: Guard jailed on culpable homicide charge
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- The Malay Mail
- Article date:
- July 10, 2003
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A SECURITY guard was jailed six years at the Ipoh High Court
yesterday after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of culpable
homicide not amounting to murder of a mute three years ago.
Justice Datuk V.T. Singham ordered the sentence on Tong Kong Mim
to run from the date of his arrest on July 21, 2000.
The 50-year-old had earlier claimed trial to murder but changed
his plea after Singham, at the close of the prosecution"s case,
amended the charge to one of culpable homicide not amounting to
murder and ordered him to enter his defence.
Tong, who worked as a security guard at a factory in Silibin,
admitted causing the death of G. Kaliaswaran, 38, on ...