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Gerakan relieved with sentence mooted out on escaped convicts in Penang

Dr Cheah Soon Hai supports the call for harsher sentence

 
 

Press statement by

 Gerakan Central Bureau on Environment, Security and Quality of Life Chairman

Dr Cheah Soon Hai

 
 

6 March 2013

 
 

The sentencing of the three detainees who escaped from police custody in Penang last January prompted Gerakan's Central Bureau on Environment, Security and Quality of Life Chairman, Dr Cheah Soon Hai to voice his relieve.

 
 

"These are dangerous people who have committed serious crimes in past such as murder and robbery. It is a good thing that three of them have already been captured and sentenced."

 
 

Dr Cheah however, urged the police in intensify their search on the remaining two detainees which remain at large after another two were gunned down following an escape attempt.

 
 

"People are afraid to venture out because these detainees are violent criminals. Previously an innocent youth was detained with a parang at his neck while ridding his motorcycle. Luckily he was released unharmed, but imagine the trauma suffered by the ordeal. Therefore, the remaining two must be re-captured at all cost to resolve this matter once and for all."

 
 

He however voiced his support to the calls of Deputy Public Prosecutor, Masnuraznim Abdul Malik for a harsher sentence for the detainees due to their aggressive act towards the police and public.

 
 

"If they can act so violently against the police, imagine what they will do to the general public. Therefore I fully support the call for harsher sentence to keep this type of people off the streets for a long time to ensure public security." said Dr Cheah, also Kedah Derga state-assemblyman.

 
 

Finally, he urged the police to take lesson from this incident to prevent such cases from happening in the future.