| Fadley Faisal |

A 21-year-old man was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to making a false police report as a practical joke on his aunt.

Magistrate Pengiran Hazirah binti Pengiran Haji Yusof heard from Deputy Public Prosecutor Raihan Nabilah binti Ahmad Ghazali how Mohammad Khairul Anuar bin Mat Jailani had called the police at 9.06am on May 5, to report that he had found a box of bullets, metals and cables.

The defendant made the call from a business premises, using his aunt’s mobile phone.

The case was dispatched to the Central Police Station, where subsequent investigations led to the defendant’s arrest and a confession.