Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Australian journalist to 10 months' jail after he pleaded guilty to changing price tags on clothes that he bought at a shopping centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur city, news reports said Friday.
However, John Leslie Lefevre was allowed to walk free as the judge ordered his jail sentence to run from the date of his arrest on March 29 last year.
Lefevre pleaded guilty to cheating the store cashier when he swapped the price tags of five pieces of clothing to show 28.50 ringgit (7.7 dollars) instead of the actual price of 62.50 ringgit (16.9 dollars), the official Bernama news agency said.
A security guard at the store had caught Lefevre, who works as a freelance journalist, changing the tags and apprehended him after he had paid for the clothes.
