Malaysia. Malaysian man has death sentence quashed as judgment in Singapore makes judicial history
Malaysia. Malaysian man has death sentence quashed as judgment in Singapore makes judicial history
On Monday, judicial history was made in Singapore when the death sentence imposed on Malaysian national, Gobi a/l Avedian, for importing class A drugs was overturned. He is the first person in known history to have had a death sentence overturned on a review by the Singapore Court of Appeal after exhausting all the usual avenue of appeals.
Gobi had initially been acquitted of the capital charge at trial in June 2017 when the trial judge accepted that he did not know at the time that the drug he was importing was heroin. However, the Attorney General’s Chambers appealed, and Gobi was convicted and sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in October 2018. (The Death Penalty Project, UK, 23.10.2020)
https://www.deathpenaltyproject.org/malaysian-man-has-death-sentence-quashed-as-judgment-in-singapore-makes-judicial-history/