No more slap on the wrist, court jails Datin who abused maid

The High Court has imposed an eight-year jail term on a Datin who was found guilty of brutally abusing her domestic helper by a lower court, but handed only a good behaviour bond.

Judicial commissioner Tun Majid Tun Hamzah, in allowing the prosecutor's review of the sentence, said the Sessions Court had wrongly exercised its discretion to impose the bond...