KOTA KINABALU, Feb 3: A former restaurant manager, Riduan Masmud, who raped an underaged girl before marrying her was sentenced to 12 years jail at the Sessions Court here. The 41-year-old father of four children was also ordered to be caned twice and to be kept under police supervision for a year after serving his sentence. Judge Ummu Kalthom Abdul Samad however allowed an application for a stay of executi ...

KOTA KINABALU, Jan 24: Restaurant manager Riduan Masmud, 40, has been found guilty of raping a 13-year-old schoolgirl who he later married. Sessions court judge Ummu Kalthom Samad will deliver his sentence on Monday after hearing submissions from the prosecution and defence. She is also giving time for the prosecution to get an impact statement from the victim. The judge extended Riduan's RM8,000 bail on Fr ...

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 14: The appeal of 40-year-old restaurant manager Riduan Masmud to be with his 13-year-old second wife, who he was accused of raping in February this year, has been rejected. Sessions court judge Ummu Kalthom Samad rejected his plea before the prosecution closed the case on Thursday, saying it was because the case was ongoing. Riduan, who is representing himself after his counsel Loretto P ...

PUTRAJAYA: Attorney General Tan Sri Gani Patail has vowed to press on with the statutory rape charges against restaurant owner Riduan Masmud amid an initial move by the prosecution to drop the case following Riduan's "marriage" to the 13-year-old victim.  He said he had also asked the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate the claim by the girl's father that Riduan paid him RM5,000 as co ...

KOTA KINABALU: He allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl and saw no wrong in it. Riduan Masmud, the 40-year-old who shocked the nation after being charged with raping the minor and later declared that he had married her in the midst of the case, has opened up for the first time on why he decided to take the girl as his second wife. The restaurant manager defended his action, saying it was a case of suka ...