Magistrate Siti Nurul Suhaila Baharin pronounced the sentence on Kelvin Gun Soon Ming, 44, after he pleaded guilty to criminally intimidating his mother at a house in Bandar Baru Ayer Itam at 10.30pm on July 9.

He will be jailed eight months if he fails to pay the fine.

According to the facts of the case, the offender’s 69-year-old mother failed to give him RM5,000 to buy a car, causing him to intimidate her by stating that he would burn her house down.

The offender was subsequently charged and pleaded guilty to criminal intimidation under Section 506 of the Penal Code today.

His counsel, Yiew De Xien, requested a minimum sentence as it was the offender’s first offence.

However, deputy public prosecutor Nurul Atikah Asharaf Ali sought a sentence commensurate with the crime to serve as a lesson and ensure no recurrence of the offence.