Bahrain Mirror: The High Criminal Court of Appeal issued the first sentence of its kind substituting the penalty of a 70-year-old Bahraini man sentenced to two months' imprisonment with house arrest, after convicting him of taking by deception a sum of 2,200 dinars from two persons "a father and son," claiming that he is a lawyer who would represent them in court, since he works for a law firm.

The executing judge had earlier decided to replace the deprivation of liberty penalty of the elderly man with an alternative punishment under the old law, but the defendant appealed the ruling since he was unable to work as a gardener, which was the alternative penalty, since he suffers from Asthma and must remain bed bound on the recommendation of his doctor.

Therefore, the court decided to dismiss the decision of the executing judge, and replace the sentence issued against the appellant with the penalty of house arrest in a specified place.

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