Prisoner jumps from Keningau court building, recaptured hiding in chicken coop hours later

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A man, who was just sentenced to a six-month jail term for a drug offence, jumped off the second floor of the Keningau Magistrate's Court building on Monday (July 29) in a bid to escape imprisonment.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/LMnch  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A 24-year-old man, who was sentenced to six months in jail for a drug offence, jumped

00:07from the second floor of the Keningau Magistrate's Court in an attempt to escape imprisonment.

00:13District Police Chief Superintendent Yam Pilgarai said the incident occurred at around 2.30

00:19p.m. on Monday.

00:21He explained that the convict was not handcuffed at the time as it was taken off for the sentencing

00:27process.

00:28Fortunately, the convict, Muhammad Safwan Shaheer Jassuf Abdullah, was caught seven

00:32hours later by a police team from the Crime Investigation Department and Special Branch.

00:38He was found hiding in a chicken coop at a government quarters near the old Keningau

00:42Hospital.

00:43On top of his six-month prison sentence, Muhammad Safwan now faces up to two years' imprisonment

00:49upon conviction for escaping custody under Sections 223 and 224 of the Penal Code.

00:58For more information, visit www.fema.gov

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