10-fold punishment for 'insulting' Prophet Mohamad (pbuh)?

It's amazing, flabbergasting, shocking, frightening and terrifying that a bloke has been sentenced to 10 years 10 months for insulting the Prophet (pbuh) on Face Book.

FMT informs us that Alister Cogia, 22, owner of the “Ayea Yea” Facebook account, pleaded guilty to 10 charges in the Sessions Court in Kuching, Sarawak, and was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months’ jail.

3 others await their horrendous turn for doing the same.

The IGP said in the person, presumably Alister Cogia, had plead guilty to 10 charges of misusing communication networks.

The offence of each charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail or a fine of up to 50,000 ringgit ($12,228) or both.

What the magistrate must have done was probably to look at the 10 charge and multiply the maximum penalty of one year in jail by 10. Wakakaka.

It would seem that when it comes to passing sentences on multiple charges, Yang Amat Arif only know the word 'consecutive' and not 'concurrent'.

Police normally 'max-es' the number of charges in order to get the accused on, say, Charge No 5 if he avoids, say, Charges No 1 to 4, etc etc. And most of the charges would generally be the same, varying only by certain words, clauses, subparas, etc.

So usually a magistrate or judge would only pass concurrent sentences, that is, if a bloke is guilty on 10 charges where each carries a sentence of 1 year, he will normally receive, say 2 years for the two charges which differ significantly.

Nonetheless, I googled to get a better comparison and obtain the following:

When sentences run concurrently, defendants serve all the sentences at the same time.

When sentences run consecutively, defendants have to finish serving the sentence for one offense before they start serving the sentence for any other offense.

... judges tend to consider when deciding on the severity of a sentence (for example, a defendant’s past record) also affect their decisions on whether to give concurrent or consecutive sentences.

Bloke has been a 1st offender PLUS the fact he pleaded guilty without challenging the charges.

Yet ... .

I am totally gobsmacked eff.

But I have to admit that I am (at last) pleased Lim Kit Siang has spoken out in, and I don't mind, diplomatic terms at the extremely harsh sentence. Will we see the 'Original/Old' Kit Siang re-emerge?

But I await for Maddy to say something which will set the magistrate 6 o'clock on fire. Mind, I won't hold my breath.

However, I am still puzzled by that extra 10 months. Where did that come from? Guan Eng's SST? Wakakaka.