KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28 -- Two brothers were sentenced to six months in jail by the Klang magistrates' court after admitting to keeping a hearse stolen from a mosque last Saturday.
The court was told that Abdul Hamid Rizan, 27, and his brother, Faizal Rizan, 23, committed the crime in desperation to settle RM30,000 in debts owed to loan sharks.
Magistrate Amirul Asyraf Abd Rashid ordered the sentence to commence from their arrest date on January 25, according to a report published in Berita Harian.
The siblings, originally from Sabah, were charged with retaining a stolen van valued at RM30,000, belonging to a mosque in Kampung Telok Gong near Port Klang.
The offence occurred at the surau of an apartment in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, around 1...