Escaping the gallows after nine-year death row limbo


PUTRAJAYA: Former police commando Azilah Hadri, who was convicted of murdering Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu has escaped the gallows after the Federal Court commuted his death sentence, and may walk out a free man as early as 2034.

The Federal Court commuted his death sentence to 40 years’ jail yesterday and ordered that he be given the mandatory 12 strokes of the rotan.

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