PUTRAJAYA: A 36-year-old engineer who murdered his girlfriend on Valentine's Day six years ago escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here found him to be of unsound mind.
Court of Appeal president Justice Ahmad Maarop, who chaired a five-man bench, ordered for Cheong Teik Keon to be placed at Hospital Bahagia in Ulu Kinta, Perak.
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