Ex-hawker escapes the noose, gets 60 years jail instead for causing deaths of four people

PUTRAJAYA: A Cambodian man, who was convicted of murdering two boys and two women, breathed a sigh of relief today after his death sentence was commuted to 60 years imprisonment by the Court of Appeal here.

A panel of three judges led by Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail handed down the prison sentence on Usuf Matli, 39, after deputy public prosecutor Mohd Fairuz Johari informed the court that the Attorney-General's Chamber (AGC) had accepted the man's representation for his murder conviction be changed to causing death.