Appeals Court commutes Nigerian's death sentence to 35 years' jail over nurse's murder


PUTRAJAYA: A Nigerian man escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal commuted the death sentence imposed on him to 35 years' jail over the murder of a chief nurse at Serdang Hospital.

A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, comprising Justices Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim and Datuk SM Komathy Suppiah also ordered Alowonle Oluwajuwon Gilbert to be punished with 12 strokes of the cane.

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