The pair were convicted by the Penampang Native Court after the man’s wife lodged a complaint, the Star newspaper said. The wife said her husband and the woman were living together and were caught in shorts and sarong when she confronted them.

Judge William Sampil said the court had found evidence of an intimate affair despite their defence as being just “best friends.”

The judge ordered the man and his lover to pay compensation of four buffalo, a pig and a fine of 2,000 ringgit (586 dollars).

Indigenous people make up less than one percent of Malaysia’s 28 million population.

The 27-year-old man related the ‘robbery’ to his would-be in-law when the latter wanted the wedding date to be brought forward.

To make his claim authentic, the reluctant groom lodged a police report that two knife-weilding robbers took the money after he had withdrawn it from an automated teller machine in Kulaijaya yesterday.

However, the police were not convinced.

They questioned the technician who eventually admitted having made up the story of the robbery as he did not want to get married.

Now, the technician is in a bigger soup.

He may be jailed for six months or fined RM2,000, or both, upon conviction under Section 177 of the Penal Code for making false report.

I wonder what he tells to his future bride or should I said ex…

Bank manager Patricia Keezer was sentenced to spend 12 months and one day behind bars after stealing $340,000 from rich customers and transferring the funds into bank accounts belonging to poorer clients.

She told the judge: “I would take other people’s problems and make them my problems. I do have a problem with giving things away.”

The 53-year-old woman – who has no family – apologised profusely in court and even told the judge she would accept the death penalty for her crimes.