Serial rapist ‘Rambo Bentong’ to face hangman’s noose


Ultimate price: Rabidin being led away after losing his appeal at the Federal Court in Putrajaya.

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence of 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, but a Federal Court three-person panel rejected his application.

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