PETALING JAYA: A Yemeni man, who dressed up as a suicide bomber for a Halloween celebration, was fined RM400, in default four days imprisonment, by the magistrate's court here for causing public nuisance.
Magistrate Nurul Huda Zakariya meted out the maximum sentence against Amjad Jalal Ahmed Al Dahan after he pleaded guilty to the offence today.
Amjad, who worked as an IT consultant, was calm and nodded when the charge was read to him by the court translator.
The 34-year-old man was charged with (creating a) public nuisance by donning a suicide bomber outfit in public at Armanee Terrace Condominium about 7.40pm on Oct 28.
The offence falls under Section 268 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 290 of the same Code which carries maximum RM400 fines.
Counsel Puan Sri N. Saraswathy Devi, who represented the accused, pleaded for a leniency, stating that his client was remorseful to the crime.
"My client has been remanded for a week and he want to apologise for his action," she said.
However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Norazalina Razali pressed for deterrant sentence, saying this should serve as a lesson to the accused and the public to not repeat the same crime.
"This is a very serious crime as it can cause confusion among the public, in differentiating between the real suicide bomber and the fake.
"The accused also should respect the law of this country," she said.
An image of the accused went viral recently when he decided to wear a robe and chequered head-scarf with “explosives” made out of cardboards and empty mineral water bottles wrapped around his waist for a Halloween party while riding a lift.
This had led the police to trigger a man-hunt for the accused prompting him to surrender himself last week.