Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 10 individuals who were convicted of murder and drug trafficking .
In the case of Duis, Hendry and Vincent, the Apex Court substituted their death sentences with 30 years’ jail from their date of arrest on June 22, 2001. Menase, meanwhile, saw his death sentence commuted to 32 years’ jail from the date of his arrest on Oct 29, 2014 and was ordered to be given 12 lashes of the cane.
Musdar, an Indonesian, was on July 19, 2016 sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal for murdering his wife, one Intan Bago, on May 2, 2012, at 6.30pm at a worker house in Kg Arau, Genting Tanjung plantation, Kinabatangan.Bakri, who appealed against his death sentence on two counts of murder pursuant to the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, has his sentence substituted with 36 years’ jail for each case, to run concurrently from the date of his arrest on Jan 12, 2016.