The Sessions Court in Kota Kinabalu today sentenced the younger brother of Housing, Local Government and Urban Wellbeing Minister Noh Omar, to five years' jail for shooting a mechanic in Sabah last year.

Mohd Jusnaidi Omar, known as Mat Malaya, was ordered by Sessions judge Azreena Aziz to serve the sentence from the date of his remand in June last year,

Azreena was quoted by Malay Mail Online as saying that the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt over the prosecution's case.

Mohd Jusnaidi, 45, was charged under Section 324 of the Penal Code with voluntarily causing harm by shooting mechanic Alkarim Atun, 36, with a pistol at the Top Up Aircond Centre along the Jalan Tuaran by-pass, at 5pm on May 6, 2015.

The maximum sentence under Section 324 is 10 years' jail, a fine or caning as claimed by deputy public prosecutor Husna Abdul Halim.

Mohd Jusnaidi was initially charged with attempted murder but was freed of the charge.

It was reported that he fled after shooting Alkarim.

He was arrested at a homestay near Kundasang at the foothills of Sabah's Mount Kibabalu sometime in June last year with his 25-year-old wife and a baby boy.

Jusnaidi remained a fugitive for close to a month after shooting Alkarim, while the police classified the case as attempted murder and possession of a firearm.

Noh's younger brother was said to be involved in a verbal confrontation with the mechanic when he took out a pistol and fired three shots, one of which hit the mechanic's right calf.

Jusnaidi was also charged with drug trafficking in 2007 but was acquitted by the High Court.