Chief cook's life sentence for trafficking set aside, gets 15 years' jail for drug possession

PUTRAJAYA: A 34-year-old chief cook succeeded on Tuesday (March 29) in his appeal to overturn his life imprisonment on two charges of drug trafficking imposed by a High Court.

Noel Harry Hungan, however, will have to serve 15 years in jail, to run from his date of arrest on May 10, 2016 and to be caned 10 times after the Court of Appeal substituted the first charge of trafficking 2,811 grammes of cannabis to one of possession.