KUANTAN, Malaysia - An Indonesian maid was sentenced to six years’ jail by the Sessions Court here yesterday for attempting to murder her employer about a year ago.
Source: Bernama
- Nurhayati Ahmad, 22, from Lombok, Indonesia, pleaded guilty to the offence by poisoning Jaharah Daud, 77, at 6 Lorong I/M 5/14, Bandar Indera Mahkota, here, at about 1.30pm on July 16, 2008.
- Judge Siti Aminah Ghazali ordered Nurhayati to serve the sentence from the date of her arrest on July 16, 2008.
- According to the facts of the case, Jaharah had drank coffee prepared by Nurhayati and complained that the drink tasted bitter.
- It also had a certain smell and turned grey.
- Her daughter, suspecting something amiss, then checked a vegetable soup dish prepared by the maid and found that it had the same odour.
- Suspecting that the drink and soup had been mixed with poison, she lodged a police report.
- The police then went to the house and found two bottles containing poison, one on a sink and the other in a cupboard in the kitchen.
- Jaharah was later sent to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan for treatment.
- She was placed under observation pending a chemist’s report which confirmed that she had been poisoned.
- In mitigation, defence counsel Mohd Fadly Hashim said Nurhayati was an orphan and had to support eight siblings.
- Deputy public prosecutor Mahadi Abdul Jumaat prosecuted.
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