Consider Sam’s case with greater sympathy


WONG Chun Wai’s piece on the plight of prisoner Sam Kian Seng, “Hope within the prison walls” (Sunday Star, May 24), has touched me, as it must have thousands of other readers nationwide.

Sam Kian Seng has been languishing in prison for the last 27 years, serving a natural life sentence for gun possession in a 1988 robbery.

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