KUCHING, June 30 -- The High Court has substituted a teenage boy's six-year detention at the Henry Gurney School for causing a fatal multi-vehicle crash on Jalan Teo Kui Seng here in January last year with six years' imprisonment.

Judge Datuk Faridz Gohim Abdullah made the decision after allowing an appeal by the prosecution led by deputy public prosecutor Jean Siow Chung Hwei.

In June last year, the then 15-year-old boy was ordered to be detained at the reform school until the age of 21 and fined RM1,500 in default two months' imprisonment.

He was charged under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 with reckless driving causing the deaths of five people: George Herson Andrew, 15, Japin Kemin, 19, Nasrulhakim Mohamad Sedek, 41, ...