Man arrested for threatening teachers who caught son smoking at school

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A father, whose son was sitting for the SPM examinations, was arrested for allegedly intimidating teachers who caught the boy smoking in the toilet of a school in Kota Kinabalu on Monday (Jan 29).  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/3pcvmu2y  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 A 49-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly intimidating teachers for taking action against

00:09 his son, said to have been caught smoking in the toilet of a school in Kota Kinabalu.

00:16 Videos of the alleged incident, which occurred on Monday morning, have gone viral.

00:21 District Police Chief ACP Mohamad Zaidi Abdullah said teachers from the school lodged a police

00:26 report and the suspect was detained to assist with investigations under Section 506 of the

00:33 Penal Code.

00:34 It was learnt that the suspect's son was caught smoking before sitting for the SPM Bahasa

00:39 Malaysia oral exam.

00:42 The 17-year-old student then contacted his father, who came to the school and allegedly

00:46 confronted the teachers involved.

00:49 The father was purportedly insistent that the school allow his son to sit for the paper

00:54 and this led to him becoming aggressive with several teachers.

00:57 Video of the alleged incident, which occurred on Monday morning, was then reported to the

01:04 District Police Chief ACP Mohamad Zaidi Abdullah.

01:08 The suspect was detained for the SPM Bahasa Malaysia oral exam and was later arrested.

01:16 Video of the alleged incident, which occurred on Monday morning, was then reported to the

01:36 District Police Chief ACP Mohamad Zaidi Abdullah.

01:37 When contacted, Sabah Education Director Datuk Raisin Saidin said it was true the student

01:42 was caught smoking in school and that he had actually been expelled last December 15.

01:48 He added that the boy was allowed back in school to sit for the SPM exams and the school

01:53 only had to address him over the smoking incident.

01:57 Raisin urged the public not to blow the incident out of proportion so that parents and students,

02:02 including the boy, could focus on the exams.

02:10 The boy was arrested on December 20, 2017.

02:11 He was charged with second-degree murder and was released on $200,000 bond.

02:12 He was arrested on December 20, 2017.

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