| Fadley Faisal |

A LOCAL man was sentenced to two months’ jail by the Magistrate’s Court yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing property with intent to annoy its occupant.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Syazwani binti Jumat revealed the facts in court yesterday before Magistrate Pengiran Hazirah binti Pengiran Haji Mohd Yusof.

It was 2.30am on July 15 when Mohammad Wafiq Naashif bin Abdullah Anto @ Johany anak Anto, 31, drove his vehicle around the residential area along the Jalan Rasau By-Pass in Kampong Mumong ‘A’.

Needing to relieve himself, he parked his car at the T-junction of the road and walked to the bushes.

While relieving himself, the defendant noticed the lights to a house still on.

After relieving himself, he approached the house and saw a silhouette of a woman inside the house.

Feeling voyeuristic, he made his way to the back of the house to catch a glimpse of the woman.

He tried to climb over the house’s surrounding rear concrete walls, but found that his tight jeans were hindering his movements.

He proceeded to take off his jeans and climbed over the wall half-naked.

He made his way toward a rear window of the house and climbed onto the window’s metal grilles to get a better look of the woman, but was unsuccessful in doing so.

Mohammad Wafiq Naashif then tried looking through the gaps of an exhaust fan at the house near to where he had climbed.

Still unable to see the woman, he climbed down and walked back to the rear of the house where he had first noticed the woman. The lights of the house went out soon after. Feeling dejected, the defendant abandoned his plan to fulfil his voyeuristic desires.

He climbed back out over the gates, put his pants back on and drove home.

Just minutes later, the woman finished doing her laundry and got ready to go to bed.

She also checked the CCTV footage from the camera installed at the back of her house, a normal nightly routine for her.

The woman was startled when she saw the defendant walking around the house compound half-naked and climbing over the windows.

Fearing for her safety, she lodged a police report at the Kuala Belait Police Station, leading to the defendant’s arrest on July 22.