Saved from the noose: Muar court acquits three friends of drug trafficking charges

MUAR: Three friends including a woman, who were all facing the death penalty for drug related offences, were spared the hangman’s noose when the High Court here acquitted and discharged all the charges against them.

Yuslaili Ahmad, 41, Iman Suhatman, 34 and Izatul Afiqah Khairudin, 33, faced three charges each for trafficking 286 gram of methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), 0.20 gram of monoacetylmorphines and 0.37 gram of heroin.