PUTRAJAYA: A former freelance computer technician escaped the gallows after the Federal Court here commuted his death sentence to 38 years in prison for kidnapping and murdering a glove factory manager whose body was found at a landfill in Sungai Siput, Perak, 17 years ago.
The court’s three-judge panel, headed by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, made the decision after allowing Yan Wai Seng’s review application to commute his death sentence to imprisonment under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023.
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