PUTRAJAYA: A former religious teacher at a school in Selangor escaped the gallows when the Federal Court commuted the death sentence to 33 years jail and 12 strokes of the rotan for killing his girlfriend, nine years ago.
A panel of three judges chaired by Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail made the unanimous decision to set aside the death sentence handed down by the Shah Alam High Court against Abdul Ra'of Mohd Dimyati, 35, after allowing his final appeal against the sentence.
