Cook and veggie seller escape the gallows

Harsh lesson to learn: Tan (in orange) and Teh after receiving their sentence.

GEORGE TOWN: A cook and a vegetable seller charged with trafficking in more than 2kg of ketamine at a house in Jalan Tanjung Bungah were sentenced to five years’ jail after they pleaded guilty to an alternate charge of drug possession.

Judicial Commissioner Datuk Azmi Ariffin ordered the sentence for Teh Lai Heng, 40, and Tan Kean Lye, 48, to commence from Dec 18, 2013. which was the date of their arrest.