Former construction firm manager escapes the gallows, sentenced to 30 years in jail

PUTRAJAYA: A former construction company manager who murdered his Indonesian girlfriend by stabbing her 28 times, six years ago, escaped the gallows after the Appeals Court on Tuesday (April 30) commuted the death sentence to 30 years in jail and 12 strokes of the rotan.

A three-member panel of judges chaired by Justice Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, Datuk Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim and Datuk Azmi Ariffin in a unanimous decision replaced the death sentence by the Shah Alam High Court on Sobri Abdul Wahab with the jail term.