KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 12 -- A 44-year-old father of seven was sentenced to four years in prison and one stroke of the rotan after pleading guilty to robbing a foreign national to settle debts with a loan shark in Batu Pahat.

According to Berita Harian, Sessions Court Judge Osman Affendi Mohd Shalleh told Zulri Jaafar that "there is no easy path in life. what you did (the robbery) was not the right way, and your actions have burdened your wife and children."

Zulri, unemployed, told the court he committed the robbery to support his family.

The national daily reported that he was charged with snatching a handbag, passport, and RM560 in cash from a 35-year-old Nepalese woman at Taman Beroleh in Batu Pahat at around 5.30pm on September 7.

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