Nearly a month after the brawl at Low Yat Plaza in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, three handphone outlet workers at the plaza pleaded guilty today to a charge of voluntarily causing hurt.

Low Leong Seng, Eric Chan Weng and Soo Weng Hing, all of whom work in handphone shops at Low Yat Plaza, pleaded guilty to the charge in a magistrate’s court in Kuala Lumpur today.

Magistrate Muhamad Faizal Ismail fined Low, Chan and Soo RM1,800 each, or face two months’ jail. They paid the fine.

The trio were charged with hurting Mohammad Khairul Azmi Mazlan under Section 323 of Penal Code, which refers to voluntarily causing hurt, on July 11, when the Low Yat brawl occurred.

While mitigating for a lighter sentence, the trio pleaded that they have been taking care of their parents.

Deputy public prosecutor N Joy Jothi urged the magistrate to take into consideration the issue of public interest and the prominence of the Low Yat incident.

Brawl received prominent coverage

According to the fact sheet, Shahrul Anwar Abdul Aziz, who allegedly stole an Oppo handphone from the outlet, was assisting Khairul to search for his lost phone at about 4pm on July 11.

As they failed to find the phone, Khairul proceeded to the ground floor of Low Yat while Shahrul went missing.

After that, Shahrul was seen being beaten by the outlet workers, shouting “Halt! Halt! Arrest him! Got people stealing phone.”

While trying to help Shahrul, Khairul was accused of abetting in the handphone theft. He was beaten by the group too.

Few minutes later, the duo were taken into a security room at the mall and then surrendered to police at the Tun H.S. Lee police station.

Shahrul ( photo ) was arrested, while Khairul was released on the spot.

The two-day Low Yat brawl received prominent coverage in the national media with some racial tones.

At least seven people were injured including journalists during the mob rioting , which involved more than 200 people.

As of today, five people have been charged.

Apart from the three outlet workers, the others charged were Shahrul and the Malay Armed Forces Veterans Association president Mohd Ali Baharom, who is known as 'Ali Tinju'.