| Fadley Faisal |

THE Magistrate’s Court yesterday sentenced a local man to eight months’ imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to stealing gas cylinders from a house.

DPP Raihan Nabilah binti Haji Ahmad Ghazali’s facts of the case state that Mohammad Ali Yusri bin Md Yussop, 24, stole two gas cylinders from an enclosure with metal bars outside a house at Jalan Kemangsi in Kampong Meragang, at 1.10am, on January 18.

Magistrate Dewi Norlelawati binti Haji Abdul Hamid further heard from the prosecution that the house occupant was about to start cooking when she realised that her gas cylinders had gone missing.

Later, she provided the police with CCTV footage which showed the defendant in the act of forcing open the enclosure and making away with the gas cylinders.

This led to the defendant’s subsequent arrest.