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PENANG: He was charged in a magistrate’s court with shoplifting two bottles of gin worth RM91.98 from a supermarket but the 53-year-old man was under the delusion that the supermarket belonged to him.
“I didn’t steal. I heard voices telling me to go and take the bottles. The supermarket is mine, how can that be considered stealing?” claimed Teoh Cheng Peng.
He said this when he was called up Tuesday at a magistrate’s court after a psychiatric report on him was tendered.
Teoh, however, insisted that he wished to plead guilty to the charge of stealing two bottles of Rose Mary Churchill Dry Gin from the Giant supermarket in Penang Plaza, Burmah Road, at 12.35pm on July 2.
This prompted the court to explain to him that his psychiatric report had established he was of unsound mind and unaware of his offence and that he would be sent to stay at the psychiatric hospital.
Teoh was charged on July 3 and court had referred him for psychiatric evaluation.
Teoh also claimed that the “people at Tanjung Rambutan” had beaten him up, to which the court told him that he had the right to lodge a police report.
Prosecuting officer Asst Supt L. Chandkumary informed the court that Teoh had two previous convictions in 1992 and 2006 for shoplifting.
Teoh asked for leniency and to be released soon. He also asked the court to help him contact the State Welfare Department so that the welfare officer who handled his case could bail him out.
“Someone is trying to kill me and has poisoned the water in my tap. I have not gone back to my flat for two months, and the government will take it away from me if I don’t return soon,” he said, adding that his family had rejected him.
Magistrate Ooi Sheow Yean told him the court had no choice but to acquit him and send him to Hospital Bahagia pending an order from the Yang di-Pertua Negri, as provided for under Section 348(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Source: The Star Online
FM: Yeah..righttttt. How convenient!
PENANG: He was charged in a magistrate’s court with shoplifting two bottles of gin worth RM91.98 from a supermarket but the 53-year-old man was under the delusion that the supermarket belonged to him.
“I didn’t steal. I heard voices telling me to go and take the bottles. The supermarket is mine, how can that be considered stealing?” claimed Teoh Cheng Peng.
He said this when he was called up Tuesday at a magistrate’s court after a psychiatric report on him was tendered.
Teoh, however, insisted that he wished to plead guilty to the charge of stealing two bottles of Rose Mary Churchill Dry Gin from the Giant supermarket in Penang Plaza, Burmah Road, at 12.35pm on July 2.
This prompted the court to explain to him that his psychiatric report had established he was of unsound mind and unaware of his offence and that he would be sent to stay at the psychiatric hospital.
Teoh was charged on July 3 and court had referred him for psychiatric evaluation.
Teoh also claimed that the “people at Tanjung Rambutan” had beaten him up, to which the court told him that he had the right to lodge a police report.
Prosecuting officer Asst Supt L. Chandkumary informed the court that Teoh had two previous convictions in 1992 and 2006 for shoplifting.
Teoh asked for leniency and to be released soon. He also asked the court to help him contact the State Welfare Department so that the welfare officer who handled his case could bail him out.
“Someone is trying to kill me and has poisoned the water in my tap. I have not gone back to my flat for two months, and the government will take it away from me if I don’t return soon,” he said, adding that his family had rejected him.
Magistrate Ooi Sheow Yean told him the court had no choice but to acquit him and send him to Hospital Bahagia pending an order from the Yang di-Pertua Negri, as provided for under Section 348(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Source: The Star Online
FM: Yeah..righttttt. How convenient!
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