Teacher escapes the gallows

KOTA KINABALU: A former international schoolteacher from Subang Jaya, Selangor, escaped the gallows for drug trafficking when the Federal Court allowed her appeal against a 2017 Kota Kinabalu High Court death sentence to be set aside.

The three-member Federal Court bench allowed Suhailah Abdullah’s appeal against her conviction on drug trafficking while reducing the charge to only one of possession under Section 39A(2)(r) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.