The Court of Appeal has upheld the 16-year prison sentence on a former information technology employee for causing the death of bank manager Syed Muhammad Danial Syed Shakir in a road rage incident on the North-South Expressway.
A three-judge panel led by Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali unanimously rejected the appeal of Yew Wei Liang, 47, against his conviction and sentence handed down by the Shah Alam High Court on Dec 7, 2023.
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A three-judge panel led by Datuk Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali unanimously rejected the appeal of Yew Wei Liang, 47, against his conviction and sentence handed down by the Shah Alam High Court on Dec 7, 2023.
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00:00The Court of Appeal has upheld the 16-year prison sentence of former IT employee Yu Wei-Liang
00:08for the death of bank manager Syed Mohammed Daniel Syed Shakir in a road rage incident
00:14on the North-South Expressway six years ago.
00:19A three-judge panel led by Datuk Cheh Mohammed Ruzima Ghazali unanimously rejected Yu's appeal
00:26against his conviction and sentence handed down by the Shah Alam High Court on December
00:317, 2023.
00:34The judge stated that the court takes the incident seriously to send a clear message
00:39to the public not to take the law into their own hands.
00:43The panel, which included Datuk Mohammed Zaini Mazlan and Datuk Azmi Arifin, also dismissed
00:49the prosecution's cross-appeal to reinstate a murder charge under Section 302 of the Penal
00:54Code, ruling that it lacked merit.
00:57Forty-seven-year-old Yu was sentenced to 16 years in prison starting from his arrest on
01:02August 10, 2019, after being found guilty of culpable homicide.
01:08Initially charged with murder, he was accused of killing 29-year-old Syed Mohammed Daniel
01:14at kilometre 293.6 of the Plus Highway, Kuala Lumpur-Seremban, between 1pm and 2pm on August
01:2210, 2019.
01:25During the cross-appeal, Deputy Public Prosecutor Ng Siu Wee argued that the High Court erred
01:31in convicting Yu of culpable homicide instead of a more severe charge.
01:37She cited Yu's testimony, in which he claimed he saw the victim rushing toward his car with
01:42a baseball bat, prompting him to shift gears and drive forward, hitting the victim.
01:47Yu stated he acted in self-defence to protect himself and his pregnant wife, who was in
01:53the vehicle.
01:54However, Ng contended that a video recording from the 19th prosecution witness, Yu's wife,
02:00showed that he was not acting in self-defence, but was instead angry and intended to
02:05teach the deceased a lesson.
02:08She maintained that the 16-year sentence was appropriate and not excessive.
02:13Meanwhile, Yu's lawyer, Datuk N Sivananthan, argued that the incident happened suddenly
02:19and without intent, urging the court to reduce the sentence to seven or eight years.