KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Mathematics scholar Nur Fitri Azmeer Nordin (pic), who is serving an 18-month jail sentence for possession of child pornography material in the Britain, will walk free after serving his sentence there.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim said this was because the 23-year-old Nur Fitri was convicted for a crime committed in Britain.

"However, if he commits the same crime here, we will hunt him down. But he is a free man after serving his sentence there," he said at a press conference on Thursday.

Asked if Nur Fitri would be monitored upon his return, Noor Rashid said no.

"We keep a record of convicts and suspects in a database," he explained.

Noor Rashid added that although there was no official sex offenders registry in place in Malaysia, the police was open to propose the programme if there was a need for it.

On Friday, British newspapers reported that student Nur Fitri Azmeer Nordin was arrested in his bedroom in Queensborough Terrace, London on Nov 21 last year.

He was found to be using his laptop, sitting next to a life-sized mannequin of a boy.

In his computer was a cache of child pornography images and videos of minors being abused. Many of the files were classified as Category A, meaning they depicted the most extreme form of abuse.

Nur Fitri was reportedly sentenced to five years' jail after pleading guilty to 13 offences, including possession of indecent images and videos of children, with intent to distribute the material.

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