August 14, 2012@11.58 pm
Decision which bowled 'em over
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By Baradan Kuppusamy (08-14-12)@www.thestar.com.my
While judges have a option in handing down judgments, Netizens feel which letting inhabitant bowler Noor Afizal Azizan walk out giveaway from a probity sends a wrong message to intensity rapists of a immature as well as immature.
THERE is offend as well as anger all over Twitter as well as Facebook over a preference by a Court of Appeal upon August 8 to overturn a five-year prison tenure imposed by a Malacca High Court upon inhabitant tenpin bowler Noor Afizal Azizan, who had confessed final year to raping an underage girl.
The Court Of Appeal, headed by Justice Raus Md Sharif, allowed a petition by a sportsman to restore an progressing preference by a Sessions Court which had usually firm him over for good poise for 5 years to a sum of RM25,000.
The 21-year-old bowler had pleaded guilty during a Malacca Sessions Court upon July 5 final year to raping a 13-year-old lady during a road house in Air Keroh in 2009.
The probity firm him over upon a five-year good poise down payment in a sum of RM25,000 since a judge felt a bowler had a "bright future" ahead of him.
Unhappy with a decision, prosecutors appealed for a stiffer custodial sentence, resulting in a five-year prison tenure for Noor Afizal upon September twenty final year.
The bowler then appealed opposite a visualisation to a Court of Appeal as well as a three-member row unanimously set in reserve a prison term, setting off a firestorm upon a Net.
Also upon a row were Court of Appeal judges Justice K.N. Segara as well! as Just ice Azhar Ma'ah.They agreed with warn Hisyam Teh Poh Teik which open interest would not be served if Noor Afizal was sent to prison since he had a bright future.
Both a Sessions Court as well as a Court of Appeal had considered a fact which 
sex was consensual as well as which Noor Afizal was a first-time offender as well as no ordinary person.
These mitigating resources had worked in his foster though Netizens feel a preference sends a wrong signal to criminals in a charged domestic ambience which is made worse by tall incidences of crime.
Statutory rape, or passionate attack opposite a lady aged next 16 with or though her agree is punishable with up to twenty years' prison as well as whipping.No doubt there were mitigating resources though Netizens have lambasted a preference as manifestly unjust as well as unfair.
They contend it makes a rapist probity system a humerous entertainment of errors. And They question if a abounding as well as famous have a single form of probity whilst a poor as well as a ordinary have another.
Connected individuals, they allege, escape probity with only a swat upon a knuckles whilst a ordinary as well as mundane have been punished with prison conditions as well as whipping for a same offence.
Angry Netizens have set up a hash tag transformation #BrightFutureRapeOK to discuss, debate as well as vent their feelings over a matter.MPs, kid minders as well as women's groups have been among those expressing outrage as well as questioning a Court of Appeal's preference to giveaway a bowler.
"Why. Is. My. Country. So. Messed. Up," tweeted adult Davina Goh upon her comment @duuuhvina. "Justice gets bowled over #BrightFutureRapeOK," Irwan Abdul Rahman pronounced upon his comment @irwanargh.
While judges have optio! n in han ding down judgment, netizens feel which letting Noor Afizal walk giveaway sends a wrong message to intensity rapists of minors, who have been considered immature to make decisions either to have or not to have sex with their boyfriends.
They have been justifiably outraged as well as express it in a most appropriate approach they can upon a Net, where comments have been some-more raw.
"Is ok to rape now in Malaysia if u could show a judge which u have a #BrightFutureRapeOK ahead," a single user said, expressing a ubiquitous melancholy with a ver- dict.
"How bright a future' really? even if he brings behind a Olympics bullion medal I'd still wish probity served," pronounced Twitter user Adibah Noor upon her comment @adibahnoor.
The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality, comprising 6 women's groups, urged a law in a statement, to "clarify" a decision.
"We have been troubled which a perpetrator's intensity for a bright future', presumably derived from his status as a inhabitant athlete, was used as a single of a drift for sentencing," it said.
"On a surface, a visualisation appears to spirit during a application of a stand in standard by implying which anyone with a right credentials' can commit a crime, as well as get away with a swat upon a knuckles," it added.
Since a box proposed during a Sessions Court, a Court of Appeal is a final forum for appeals, withdrawal a demand from Netizens for probity squarely in a hands of a Attorney-General.
As Puchong MP Gobind Singh pointed out, a Attorney-General can ask for a review prior to a full dais of a Court of Appeal. He can though will he wish to do it or leave a box as it is?
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