Federal Court upholds serial rapist Rambo Bentong's death penalty for two murders


File picture of Rambo Bentong being brought to court. - Photo courtesy of mStar

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court on Tuesday (July 9) upheld the death penalty for a serial rapist known as ‘Rambo Bentong’, who was convicted of murdering a teenager and an employee of the Bentong Forestry Department.

Rabidin Satir, 53, had applied for a review of his death sentence under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023, but a three-judge panel of the Federal Court rejected his application.

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