Gangsters hired by BLD brought along machetes and explosives to threaten longhouse folks

 Our own Ibans Gangsters reported being paid for merely RM100 as “Security Personnel ?

 He thought that he can mess arround with the Ibans of Ulu Niah?

 The Gangsters were on Camping trip at the Oil Palm Estate?

 Scurity Personnel?

 For Self Defence?

Used explosives

 Explosives?

 

Gang Leader being arrested by what about the others?

 

NOTES:

1. MANDATORY DEATH PENALTY: FIREARMS, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES

Section 57 of the ISA prescribes a mandatory death penalty for certain offences to be tried in court,

(1) Any person who without lawful excuse, the onus of proving which shall be on that person, in any security area carries or has in his possession or under his control -

a) any firearm without lawful authority therefor: or

b) any ammunition or explosive without lawful authority therefor,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be punished with death.

2. CORROSIVE AND EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES AND OFFENSIVE WEAPONS ACT 1958

Offenses relating to scheduled weapons

7. (1) Any person who, otherwise than for a lawful purpose—

(a) carries or has in his possession or under his control;

(b) manufactures, sells or hires or offers or exposes for sale or hire; or

(c) lends or gives to any other person,

any scheduled weapon shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit or both, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year and not more than three years.

(2) In any prosecution for an offence under subsection (1) the onus of proving the existence of a lawful purpose shall be upon the accused.

(3) An offence under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be a seizable and non-bailable offence.

Consorting with persons carrying offensive weapons in public places

8. (1) Any person who consorts with, or is found in the company of, another person who is carrying or has in his possession or under his control any offensive weapon in contravention of section 6, in circumstances which raise a reasonable presumption that he knew that such other person was carrying or had in his possession or under his control any such weapon shall, unless he shall prove that he had reasonable grounds for believing that such other person was carrying or had in his possession or under his control any such weapon for a lawful purpose, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to the like punishment as that other person with whom he was consorting or in whose company he was found.

(2) An offence against this section shall be deemed to be a seizable and non-bailable offence.

 

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