Trio get life sentences for kidnapping reduced to seven years on amended charge

PUTRAJAYA: Three men saw their life sentences for kidnapping cut to seven years' jail by the Court of Appeal here on a reduced charge of abducting a five-year-old boy with intention to wrongfully confine him in 2015.

This was after deputy public prosecutor Nahra Dollah informed the three-member panel of judges on Monday (July 4) that the prosecution had accepted the trio's oral representation to have their charges amended.