Couple escapes gallows, jailed 30 years for causing son's death


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PUTRAJAYA: A couple escaped the gallows on Wednesday (March 20) after the Court of Appeal substituted their murder charge with committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of their eight-year-old son.

A three-member panel of judges led by Justice Hadhariah Syed Ismail sentenced Aaron Teoh Eng Wan and his wife En Sit Mooi to 30 years' imprisonment, starting from the date of their arrest on May 26, 2017.

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