Thursday, December 27, 2007

Study mama's death bus driver jailed

He was hoping his own misfortune. The loss of his income as well as his left leg was reprisal enough for causing the death of a chinese national woman on sept11 a road accident. Malaysia bus driver Lai Fook Siang ,41, who lost his leg in a hit-and-run accident in Johor a week later, pleaded in court yesterday for light sentence. In mitigation, Lai said he has three young children, an unemployed wife as well as an ageing mother, to feed. He also had no intention to hurt the victim, a " study mama ", Lai added. Lai was sentenced to three weeks in jail and also banned him from driving all classes of vehicles for a period of five years after finding him guilty of committing a negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide.

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