FORMER Umno Supreme Council member Lokman Noor Adam has been sentenced to a month’s jail by the Kuala Lumpur High Court after finding him guilty of contempt for intimidating a prosecution witness in former prime minister Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) trial.

Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah said he imposed a custodial sentence on the former Umno supreme member after taking into account the circumstances of the case and having heard mitigating and aggravating factors by counsel.

He said Lokman committed contempt in relation to the eighth prosecution witness in the 1MDB case, namely Najib’s former special officer Amhari Effendi Nazaruddin.

“I find the act of the respondent, accompanied with intent, to make the media statement and police report, amounted to a threat against the witness and other potential witnesses in the trial, giving rise to risk on the due administration of justice and amounted to contempt of court,” Sequerah ruled.

He said the one-month jail term began today but allowed a stay of execution, pending an appeal to the Court of Appeal.

Lokman had threatened Amhari while he was in midst of giving evidence in the trial in 2019. – July 15, 2021.