PUTRAJAYA, Oct 2 — A former bowling coach, already serving a prison term for sexual assault, was sentenced to an additional two years’ imprisonment by the Court of Appeal today for molesting another former Malaysia Games male athlete in 2017.
A three-member bench led by Federal Court judge Datuk Azmi Ariffin, sitting as a Court of Appeal judge, ordered Mat Salleh Jalani to begin serving the two-year sentence after completing his six-year prison term for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old male athlete in 2018.
The bench, which also comprised Justices Datuk Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz and Datuk Meor Hashimi Abdul Hamid, allowed the prosecution’s appeal to set aside the High Court’s decision to acquit and discharge Mat Salleh of the charge.
