Appeals Court commutes Nigerian’s death sentence to 35 years’ jail for killing nurse
PUTRAJAYA: A Nigerian man escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal here today commuted the death sentence imposed on him for the murder of a chief nurse at Serdang Hospital to 35 years imprisonment. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, comprising Justices Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim and […]
Man charged with murder of 6-year-old disabled girl
KUCHING: A 35-year-old man was charged in the Bau Magistrate’s Court on one count of killing a six-year-old disabled girl and disposing of the body in a bush at Kampung Keranji, Bau last November. No plea was taken from the accused, Then after a charge framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code was read […]
I’m not for abolition of mandatory death
Everyone deserves a second chance. If there are two options (of sentences), and if the offender is found to be a hardcore drug trafficker to the extent of causing hundreds of thousands of people to die (due to drugs), he can be sentenced to death and allowed to be sent to the gallows. – Prime […]
Patriots welcome abolition of mandatory death penalty
KUCHING: The Sarawak Patriot Association (SPA) has welcomed the federal government’s move to abolish the mandatory death sentence like what has been done in 108 other countries. Its chairman Datuk Dr John Lau Pang Heng said Malaysia is one of the countries in the world that still retains the mandatory death sentence. Minister in the […]
Jobless man escapes the gallows
KUCHING: An unemployed man missed the gallows for distributing 855.8 grams of syabu, when the Federal Court substituted the charge to possession of drugs. A three-judge Federal Court panel headed by Chief Justice of Malaya, Tan Seri Azahar Mohamed along with Chief Justices of Sabah and Sarawak, Tan Seri Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and Datuk […]
Death sentence stays, Bill Kayong’s murderer fails appeal
KUCHING: The Federal Court here today maintained the death sentence on a local man for murdering a PKR Miri secretary Bill Kayong on June 2016. The judges, Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan, Datuk Vernon Ong Lam Kiat and Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli rejected the appeal made by the accused Mohamad Fitri Pauzi, 35. In the ruling, Judge […]
Nigerian escapes gallows after being acquitted of drug trafficking charge
KUCHING: A former Nigerian student liaison officer escaped the gallows when the Federal Court reversed his conviction and death sentence for the offence of trafficking methamphetamine weighing 158.30g six years ago. A three-judge panel chaired by Datuk Seri Mohd Zawawi Salleh with Datuk Nallini Pathmanathan and Datuk Abdul Rahman Sebli unanimously found that the evidence […]
Ex-cop to hang for killing of wife
KUCHING: A former policeman has been sentenced by the court here to death by hanging. Judicial commissioner Christopher Chin Soo Yin on Tuesday (March 9) ordered former inspector Mohamad Sohffian Abu Hassan to the gallows after being found guilty of killing his wife, Siti Nadrah Abdullah, 33, at a house at Kampung Kakai Serian at […]
The gallows for drug trafficker
KUCHING: The High Court here sentenced a local man to death after he was found guilty of drug trafficking yesterday. High Court Judge Datuk Supang Lian ordered Jason Hew, aged 29 years, to be hanged to death after the court found him guilty of drug trafficking under Section 39B (2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act […]
Pathologist, five men appeal against death sentence
KUALA LUMPUR: Pathologist Colonel Dr R. Kunaseegaran and five men are appealing against their conviction and death sentence for murdering deputy public prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais, whose body was found in a barrel filled with concrete five years ago. The six appellants filed a notice of appeal through their lawyers at the Criminal High […]
