The Denpasar District Court Judges sentenced the defendant Agus Sugianto (31), the perpetrator of the murder in Denpasar, to 19 years and six months in prison.
The panel of judges chaired by Theodora Usfunan in the trial of reading the verdict at the Denpasar District Court, assessed that the defendant was legally and convincingly proven to have committed a criminal act of premeditated murder as stipulated in Article 340 of the Criminal Code.
"The trial, sentenced the defendant Agus Sugianto to 19 years and six months imprisonment reduced while the defendant was detained," said the Panel of Judges as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, May 22.
The Panel of Judges agrees with the prosecutor's demands, which charged the defendant Agus Sugianto, a man from Kedunggebang Village, Tegaldlimo, Banyuwangi, East Java with a prison sentence of 19.5 years.
The aggravating thing is that the defendant's actions resulted in the death of the victim Komang Agus Asmara. As for mitigating matters, the defendant admitted that he had never been convicted and was polite so as to expedite the trial process.
Agus admitted that he killed his friend, a parking attendant (jukir), Komang Agus Asmara, on the banks of the East Taman Pancing river, Pemogan, South Denpasar, because he ran out of money from selling the victim's motorbike to play online gambling.
As stated in the prosecutor's indictment, it was explained that the bloody incident occurred on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at around 21.00 WITA. However, the beginning of the incident began on Tuesday night, November 5, 2024, when the defendant met the victim, a person with visual impairment (conditions when a person has intellectual and cognitive abilities below average) at Circle K Jalan Cokroaminoto, Denpasar.
During the meeting, the two agreed to sell or pawn the victim's Honda Supra motorbike to be used as capital for online gambling. The next day at around 04.30 WITA, the victim came to the Sari Roti depot where the defendant worked. They again discussed their plan to find capital to play slots.
Because the pawned proceeds were considered small, they then agreed to sell motorbikes so that the capital would be greater. The Asmara victim went home to take the BPKB and the Oppo A17 cellphone box to be pawned. At around 10:00 WITA, the victim returned to the depot with the BPKB and a cellphone box.
He then rested, while the defendant headed to Payangan, Gianyar, to sell the motorbike. The motorbike was sold to someone named Leman for IDR 5 million.
Still in the prosecutor's indictment, after the payment, the defendant was escorted by Leman's child to Mambal, then continued to take an online motorcycle taxi to the depot. At around 15.00 WITA, the defendant arrived at the depot and took the victim to the Monang Maning Post where the victim worked as a parking attendant.
After that, the defendant deposited Rp 1.75 million in cash to Mandiri Peguyangan ATM and Rp 2.1 million in BCA ATM at Circle K Cokroaminoto.
"The money was immediately transferred to an online gambling site and used to play slots," said the prosecutor.
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However, in a short time, the defendant lost so that Rp. 4 million was spent. When realized that all the money from the sale of the victim's motorbike had been used for gambling without the victim's knowledge, the defendant panicked and began to think about the worst possibility.
"The defendant thought that the worst possibility was if the victim was angry with the defendant regarding the money, then the defendant had to kill the victim's life," said the prosecutor.
At around 16.30 WITA, the intention to kill began to emerge. The defendant took a cutter knife with a green handle from the backpack in his room, then transferred it to a waist bag. At around 19.30 WITA, wearing a black sweater and black shorts, the defendant picked up the victim at the Monang Maning Post.
After buying two pairs of gloves at Giovani Shop, Jalan Gunung Rinjani, the two of them went around looking for a quiet location to play slots. They had stopped at Jalan Pura Demak, but the location was considered too dark so they moved on the banks of the Taman Pancing Timur river.
At around 20.30 WITA, the victim went down to the riverbank and the defendant bought two bottles of drinks at the Madura shop.
They sat together on the grass. The victim only watched when the defendant returned to play slots. However, again the money ran out, "explained the prosecutor.
In the last conversation, the defendant admitted to the victim that all the money from the sale of the motorbike had run out.
The victim was angry and asked for responsibility and even proposed borrowing the defendant's motorbike for work, but the defendant refused. An argument ensued between the victim and the defendant.
When the victim was on his right side, the defendant carried out the murder using a cutter knife that he had prepared. After carrying out the action, the defendant cleaned himself up and then took the victim's cellphone and sold it for Rp600 thousand.
The money from the sale was transferred to the defendant's BCA account and used to play gambling.
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