| Fadley Faisal |

A MANAGER of a fast food franchise branch who pleaded guilty last Saturday to committing criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving just below BND3,000 was sentenced to a year’s jail by Magistrate Kamaliah Fadhilah binti Ibrahim yesterday.

Malaysian Paula Kathy Meran, 32, who had worked for KFC since April 2016, pleaded guilty to committing the offences on March 25 involving BND1,472.75 and March 26, 2019 involving BND1,430.

The defendant’s actions were discovered when the Manager of KFC branches found that the defendant had not deposited the proceeds from the two days at her branch at KFC One City Mall, Jalan Utama Salambigar on April 19, 2019, which led to the filing of a police report.

Police investigations revealed that the defendant had used the money to pay off her debts back home in Sabah when she went home briefly on March 26, 2019.

Deputy Public Prosecuter Dayangku Didi-Nuraza binti Pengiran Latiff’s facts of the case further stated that no restitution has been made by the defendant.