The Batu Pahat magistrates’ court ordered that Ahmad Fairus Mohamed’s prison sentence run from the date of his arrest on Oct 18. (Facebook pic)PETALING JAYA: An oil palm plantation labourer was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment by the Batu Pahat magistrates’ court in Johor today after pleading guilty to threatening his wife and chasing her with a parang over suspicions of infidelity.

Berita Harian reported that magistrate Mustaqim Sukarno sentenced Ahmad Fairus Mohamed, 42, after he pleaded guilty.

The court ordered that Fairus’s prison sentence run from the date of his arrest on Oct 18.

The father of three was charged with threatening his 37-year-old wife with a parang at a house in Senggarang at 8.30am on Oct 18.