Two escape gallows, get jail terms instead for drug possession


PUTRAJAYA: Two men were spared the gallows on Friday (Nov 26) in separate drug trafficking cases and were instead sentenced to jail after the Court of Appeal substituted their charges with possession.

Lorry driver Mahadi Abidin, 50, was sentenced to 25 years’ jail for possessing 97.76g of cannabis in the parking area of a nasi kandar restaurant in Taman Sejati, Sungai Petani, Kedah on July 15, 2015.

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