A Nigerian
college student was sentenced to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis in
Kuala Lumpur.
A judge of High Court, Justice
Amelia Tee Hong Geok Abdullah, handed down the decision on Wednesday after the
defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt in Uchechukwu Nelson Ohaechesi’s
case.
According to the judge, the court
found that Ohaechesi, 37, was not a witness of truth. She said the accused’s
defence was an afterthought, a pure fabrication and untrue.
She said the court also considered
the evidence of the accused in totality to determine if the defence raised by
him has nevertheless cast a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the
prosecution’s case.
"The court therefore sentences
the accused to death and vide Section 183 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the
accused is to be hanged by the neck until he is dead," she ordered.
Ohaechesi was accused of trafficking
26,533 grams of cannabis beside an overhead bridge staircase at Taman Connaught
Highway (Kajang bound) in Cheras at about 7.45pm on Oct 17, 2010.
A total of seven prosecution
witnesses were called to testify, while the defence had only one witness.
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