Wife killer spared the gallows


PUTRAJAYA: A father of five escaped the gallows for his wife’s murder five years ago after the Court of Appeal here commuted the sentence to 30 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the rotan.

Justice Hadhariah Syed Ismail, heading a three-member panel of judges, rejected the appeal of former electrician Taufeeq Mohsein Ahmad Tahir, 38.

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