Policeman gets 4 months for shooting

Policeman gets 4 months for shooting

AMBON, Ambon: The district military tribunal on Wednesday
sentenced Adj. Brig. Suko Rihardian to a prison sentence of four
months and twenty days for negligence, that resulted in the death
of Samuel Ohoiliulun, 25, when Suko fired a shot into the air.

Presiding judge Let. Col. Sopiandi said Rihardian of the
Maluku Mobile Brigade Police was on duty in Tual, capital of
Southeast Maluku regency on September 11 trying to disperse a mob
who were throwing stones at a resident's house.

The judge said the defendants fired eight warning shots into
the air and one of the bullets hit the victim on a hill some 15
meters above him.

The sentence was lower than that demanded by military
prosecutor Maj. Soenarso, who asked for seven months in jail.
--Antara