An Indonesian maid Issue

Six years for maid who tried to poison employer

KUANTAN, 3 Nov 2009 : An Indonesian maid was sentenced to six years’ jail by the Sessions Court here yesterday for attempting to murder her employer about a year ago.

Nurhayati Ahmad, 22, from Lombok, Indonesia, pleaded guilty to the offence by poisoning Jaharah Daud, 77, at 6 Lorong I/M 5/14, Bandar Indera Mahkota, here, at about 1.30pm on July 16, 2008.
Judge Siti Aminah Ghazali ordered Nurhayati to serve the sentence from the date of her arrest on July 16, 2008.
According to the facts of the case, Jaharah had drank coffee prepared by Nurhayati and complained that the drink tasted bitter.
It also had a certain smell and turned grey.
Her daughter, suspecting something amiss, then checked a vegetable soup dish prepared by the maid and found that it had the same odour.
Suspecting that the drink and soup had been mixed with poison, she lodged a police report.
The police then went to the house and found two bottles containing poison, one on a sink and the other in a cupboard in the kitchen.
Jaharah was later sent to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan for treatment.
She was placed under observation pending a chemist’s report which confirmed that she had been poisoned.
In mitigation, defence counsel Mohd Fadly Hashim said Nurhayati was an orphan and had to support eight siblings.
Deputy public prosecutor Mahadi Abdul Jumaat prosecuted. — Bernama