KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — The Shah Alam Magistrate's Court has ruled that the lorry driver charged with murdering his Thai girlfriend by pushing the woman off the 23rd floor of a condominium is fit to stand trial.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 15 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of former lorry driver Jaafar Ngamil to 34 years in prison for strangling his girlfriend's husband to death.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 15 — A prisoner on death row for murdering his sister-in-law, who was also his lover, at a hotel in 2014 escaped the gallows today when the Federal Court commuted the death sentence with 32 years imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.

SHAH ALAM, Aug 15 — The police have not yet classified the death of Muhammad Nidza Afham Mokhtar, whose body was found on the Sungai Klang riverbank yesterday, as a criminal case or otherwise.

MUMBAI, Aug 15 — Thousands of women marched across several Indian cities overnight and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for strict punishment for crimes against women, as outrage and protests against the gruesome rape and murder of a doctor escalated.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 14 — A woman and her younger brother escaped the death penalty after the Court of Appeal commuted the death sentence imposed on them to 33 years in prison each for the murder of her blind husband four years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 12 — The Court of Appeal today directed two teenagers to enter their defence on the initial murder charge they faced for the killing of seven-year-old Mohammad Aimin Nurul Amin at a tahfiz centre nearly five years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 — The High Court recently awarded RM700,000 in damages to the widow of a Chinese national tourist who was murdered, in her negligence suit against a prominent hotel in Pahang where he had stayed five years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 7 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of a former sawmill worker to 40 years in prison for killing and raping a nurse nine years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 7 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence of a former security guard to 38 years in jail for the murder of Perak Veterinary Department deputy director Dr Rohani Kassim 13 years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 1 — A married couple escaped the death penalty today after they pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of culpable homicide not amounting to the murder of their friend.

IPOH, Aug 1 — The High Court has scheduled September 5 for the hearing of the bail application of senior police officer Mohd Nazri Abdul Razak, 44, who is charged with the murder of a 17-year-old student, pending his trial.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 — The following is the chronology of events of the murder of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah, 25, from Miri, Sarawak.

HULU SELANGOR, July 26 — The family of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah, who was found dead in an oil palm plantation on July 15, is satisfied with the police investigation and the prosecution process so far.

By Selangor Journal Team  HULU SELANGOR, July 26 — A police officer was charged in the Kuala Kubu Bharu Magistrate's Court today with the murder of Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah, whose body was found in an oil palm plantation. Lance Corporal Muhammad Alif Monjani, 26, is accused of killing Nur...

PUTRAJAYA, July 24 — The Court of Appeal yesterday sentenced to death six former Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) students for the murder of navy cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago.

KLANG, July 23 — The High Court has granted an extension until August 13 for Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, Tanjung Rambutan, in Perak to continue observing the mental state of a young man charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend last year.

PUTRAJAYA, July 23 — The Court of Appeal has ruled that the murder of Navy Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago represents one of the rarest and most extreme forms of cruelty, and it will not tolerate such crimes.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 — The Court of Appeal will decide tomorrow on an appeal by six former Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) students against their 18-year prison sentence for causing the death of navy cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain seven years ago.

KUALA KUBU BAHRU,  July 22 — The remand order on the suspect in the murder of former Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) student Nur Farah Kartini Abdullah has been extended for seven days from tomorrow.