HOUSEWIFE Rozita Mohamad Ali was sentenced to eight years’ jail today by the Shah Alam High Court, which revised an earlier good behaviour bond for abusing her Indonesian maid in 2016.

High Court judicial commissioner Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah today revised the sentence on Rozita, who was released two weeks ago by the Sessions Court on a good behaviour bond for five years in surety of RM20,000 for causing grievous hurt to Suyanti Sutrinso.

“I view the court bond as issued incorrectly and it does not fit the offence,” he said when meting out the sentence, according to The Malay Mail.

Tun Majid also rejected the defence counsel’s plea for a stay of execution and ordered Rozita to serve her sentence immediately.

Counsel Haniff Khatri Abdulla said his client was willing to have her passport impounded and to adhere to any other additional condition.

The 44-year-old was initially charged with attempted murder, but it was later amended to causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons.

She pleaded guilty to the charge and was bound over for five years on a good behaviour bond of RM20,000 on March 15 by Sessions Court judge Mohammed Mokhzani Mokhtar.

She allegedly used a knife, mop, umbrella, iron rod and clothes hanger to abuse Suyanti at a house in Mutiara Damansara on June 21, 2016.

The case drew massive outcry after a video of a seriously injured woman lying near a drain in the housing area went viral on social media with thousands of people signing an online petition demanding harsher punishment towards Rozita.

It prompted the Attorney-General’s Chambers to file an appeal to review the penalty. – March 29, 2018.