| Fadley Faisal |

THE Magistrate’s Court yesterday handed a six months’ imprisonment sentence to an Indonesian domestic helper for stealing her employer’s brother’s mobile phone.

Melisa Handayani, 30, pleaded guilty to the offence before Magistrate Hajah Noor Amalina binti Dato Paduka Haji Alaihuddin two days ago.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Hajah Siti Mu’izzah binti Haji Sabli revealed in court that the defendant’s employer called her brother on the night of June 15 to tell him that she found a mobile phone in her storeroom at home and suspected it to be his missing phone.

A police report had previously been lodged about the missing phone.

The police were notified of the discovery after the brother confirmed the phone, which had been missing for the past few months, to be his.

The employer informed the police that she had seen the defendant unusually frequenting the storeroom of late.

It was also revealed that the defendant had been using the phone to check her Facebook account, and that the defendant hid the phone in the storeroom after using it.