| Fadley Faisal |

A 22-YEAR-OLD local man was sentenced to two months’ jail for misappropriating a Blondal External Water Filter Tank after pleading guilty to the offence in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Clement Walker anak Guat had agreed to a free trial of the water filter tank and having it installed at his home. He however abused the free trial, uninstalling the filter tank and selling it.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Sabrina binti Haji Mahmud’s facts of the case stated that on February 15 an employee from Blondal (B) Sdn Bhd went to the defendant’s house in Lumut to promote the External Water Filter Tank and free trial.

The defendant agreed to take on the free trial and have the water filter tank installed at his house for five days from February 15 to 21.

On February 22 at 3.30pm, the Blondal employee together with four co-workers returned to the house to retrieve the water filter tank, only to discover it was no longer there. The defendant was not home at the time.

The employee and his four coworkers returned to the address an hour later, during which the defendant was home.

The defendant informed the employee that he did not know where the filter tank was, and that some items at his house had also gone missing.

A police report was lodged. Investigations by Sungai Liang police led to the defendant’s arrest.

The defendant admitted that he had carried the filter tank into his friend’s car boot with the assistance of a neighbour. The defendant instructed his friend to sell the filter tank, assuring him that it was not stolen property.

The friend sold the filter tank for BND30, a huge markdown from the product’s BND1,880 retail price. The water filter tank was eventually recovered.

Magistrate Pengiran Hazirah binti Pengiran Haji Md Yusof presided over the case.