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Coffee shop helper spared the gallows

By CAVINA LIM
Elated man: Khoo walking out of the courtroom after he was acquitted and discharged by the High Court.

GEORGE TOWN: A coffee shop helper escaped the hangman’s noose when he was freed on 11 charges, including one for drug trafficking.

Penang High Court Judicial Com­mis­sioner Abdul Wahab Mohamed acquitted and discharged Khoo Kean Lee, 47, at the end of the prosecution’s case yesterday.

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