KOTA KINABALU: An unemployed man was freed by the Magistrate’s Court here yesterday from a charge of threatening his ex-girlfriend last year.

Magistrate Cindy Mc Juce Balitus acquitted and discharged Hajirol Halid, 39, without calling for his defence after she ruled that the prosecution had failed to establish a prima facie case against the man.

The charge stated that Hajirol, who was defended by counsel Azhier Farhan Arisin, had allegedly threatened to kill the victim aged 37, to commit arson on her house and to pour acid on her at a house at Taman Sepanggar in Menggatal on October 26.