Appeals Court commutes death sentence on lovers for murder to 30 years imprisonment


PUTRAJAYA: The Appeals Court commuted the death sentence imposed on a pair of lovers for the murder of a five-year-old boy, the son of the female accused nine years ago, to 30 years in prison.

A panel of three judges consisting of Datuk Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera, Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim and Datuk S.M.Komathy Suppiah ordered R. Saravanan Kumar, 33, and T. Gayathry, 39, to serve the jail sentence from the date of their arrest.

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