Three Mexican brothers, two others to hang for drug trafficking


Lawyers for the Gonzalez Villarreal brothers and Singaporean Lim Hung Wang, Hisyam Teh Poh Teik (left) and Kitson Foong (middle) in a discussion with the Mexican Ambassador to Malaysia Carlos Felix Corona after the judgement was read at the Federal Court here.

PUTRAJAYA: Three Mexican brothers searching for greener pastures in Malaysia were among five people sent to the gallows by the Federal Court for drug trafficking on Thursday.

Brothers Luis Alfonso, 47, Simon, 40 and Jose Regino Gonzalez Villarreal, 37, together with Malaysian Lee Boon Siah and Singaporean Lim Hung Wang had their application dismissed unanimously by a five-member panel chaired by Justice Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin.

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