KUALA LUMPUR: Former Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong Choo Kiong has filed an application to review the Federal Court decision ordering him to serve eight years in prison and receive two strokes of the rotan for the rape of his Indonesian maid.
The 55-year-old filed the motion through law firm, Messrs Rajpal, Firah and Vishnu, on Oct 23.
According to the affidavit, Yong is seeking to be granted permission under Rule 137 of the Federal Court to review the decision made on Oct 1 by a panel led by Chief Justice Datuk Seri Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh.
Yong is requesting that the Federal Court decision to be set aside and that an appropriate and just order be issued in its place.
Rajpal said Yong has been serving his sentence at the Kajang Prison since Oct 1.
“My client still cannot accept he has been convicted,” he told the New Straits Times.
On Oct 1, Wan Ahmad Farid ordered Yong to be jailed for eight years and caned twice after dismissing his final appeal against his 2019 rape conviction.
In an unanimous decision, the chief justice, who sat with judges Datuk Nordin Hassan and Datuk Hanipah Farikullah, ruled that the conviction against Yong by the Ipoh High Court in 2022 – and affirmed by a majority decision by the Court of Appeal (CoA) last year – was safe.
Wan Ahmad Farid had said having considered the totality of evidence presented to the court, they found that the elements of the charge under Section 376(1) of the Penal Code against Yong that there was penetration and without the maid’s consent have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
On Aug 23, 2019, at the Ipoh Sessions Court, Yong claimed trial to one count of raping his maid between 8.15pm and 9.15pm at his home in Meru Desa Park on July 7 the same year.
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