Not a fair trial, claims family of Malaysian to hang in Singapore


  • Nation
  • Friday, 03 Feb 2017

(From left): Lawyer N Surendran, Singapore anti-death penalty campaign representative M. Ravi, PKR politician Tian Chua, Datchinamurthy's mother Letchumi Arumugam at the court lobby.

KUALA LUMPUR: The family of a Malaysian man sentenced to hang in Singapore has filed a judicial review at the KL High Court, claiming he had been deprived of a fair trial.  

Datchinamurthy Kataiah, 32, was convicted of trafficking 44g of heroine across the Causeway from Johor to Singapore in January 2011, and was sentenced to death in April 2015.  

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