Debt collector escapes gallows, gets 16 years' jail and caning for drug offence


PUTRAJAYA (Bernama): A debt collector escaped the gallows for trafficking methamphetamine five years ago, but will instead be jailed 16 years and given 20 strokes of the cane for drug possession.

A Court of Appeal three-man bench, comprising Datuk Seri Kamaludin Md Said, Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail and Datuk Nordin Hassan, ordered Keow Sze Teve to serve the jail sentence concurrently with the sentence imposed on him for possession of firearms and bullets.

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