PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): A hawker was sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal here on Wednesday (July 29) for trafficking in 41.70g of heroin and monoacetylmorphine (a metabolite of heroin) drugs.
This was after a three-member panel chaired by Datuk Nor Bee Ariffin allowed the prosecution's cross-appeal to substitute the life imprisonment and 15 strokes of whipping imposed by the High Court on Zaliman Zakaria, to a death sentence.
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