Fugitive mat rempit fined and jailed for reckless riding

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A fugitive mat rempit was fined RM5,000 and sentenced to a day in jail by the Ayer Keroh magistrate's court in Melaka after he pleaded guilty to a reckless riding offence committed in 2017.  31-year-old Khairul Izuan Kamaruddin was charged under Section 42(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 before Magistrate Sharda Shienha Mohd Suleiman on Tuesday (July 16).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2n4mk766   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A fugitive Mott Rempit was fined 5,000 ringgit and sentenced to a day in jail by the Ayyar

00:09Karo Magistrate's Court in Malacca after he pleaded guilty to a reckless riding offence

00:14in 2017. 31-year-old Khairul Izwan Kamaruddin was charged under Section 42, Subsection 1

00:23of the Road Transport Act 1987 before Magistrate Sharda Sienha Mohammed Suleiman on Tuesday.

00:30Khairul Izwan, who is self-employed, was first detained on June 11, 2017. However, he went

00:38missing and failed to appear in court for seven years until he was apprehended in Taiping

00:44Perak on Monday. He was found guilty of riding a motorcycle in a manner which endangered

00:49other road users along Labo-Espya Stadium, Hangjabat, on June 11, 2017, together with

00:56two other motorcyclists. All three were apprehended the same day. Earlier, Deputy Public Prosecutor

01:03Inspector Naeem Abdul Jalil requested for Khairul Izwan to given a harsh punishment

01:09due to the severity of the offence. The accused, who was unrepresented, appealed for leniency

01:15and said he needed to return to his hometown in Taiping in 2017 to care for his sick parents

01:22and disabled sister. The court also disqualified Khairul Izwan from holding a B2 motorcycle

01:28licence for five years. Khairul Izwan paid the fine.

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