00:00A senior citizen was charged with murder at the Butterworth Sessions Court on Tuesday.
00:04As he was being taken to court, Yee Fatsiong posed for press photographers
00:09and flashed the peace sign. The 70-year-old napped while waiting for his case to come up
00:15and needed help to stand and proceed to the dock. According to the charge sheet,
00:20Yee is alleged to have murdered Lu Ataeong, aged 63, at a hut on Jalan Kolam in Cherok Tokkun,
00:27Bukit Murtajam, between 2 p.m. and 3.22 p.m. on April 27. He was charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code for Murder,
00:38which provides for the death penalty, or between 30 and 40 years in jail,
00:42with no fewer than 12 strokes of the cane, upon conviction. Yee, who was unrepresented,
00:50said he understood the contents of the charge sheet after they were read to him in Mandarin,
00:55before Judge Noor Aza Khasran. No plea was recorded from the accused as murder cases are
01:02under the jurisdiction of the High Court. On April 27, a brawl at a hut in Cherok Tokkun
01:09resulted in the death of one man. Investigations found that the victim was chatting with five friends,
01:16including the suspect, including the suspect, at the time. The suspect is said to have suddenly hit the
01:21victim with a stick before stabbing him. The suspect was arrested in front of a coffee shop
01:27in Machang Bubok at about 11 p.m. on April 29.
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