Duo's appeal against death sentence July 18

Kota Kinabalu: The Court of Appeal will on July 18 hear the appeal by two men from Johor against their death sentence for drug trafficking.Justices Dato' Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid, Dato' Abdul Rahman Sebli and Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal fixed the date for Eswaran Susop and Jaswant Singh, both 24, whowere brought to the court Monday for hearing of their cases.

Earlier, Jaswant's counsel Ram Singh applied for another date on the grounds that they have yet to receive from Putrajaya exhibits and several documents as they wanted these to be produced in court.

Both appellants were on Oct 23, 2013 found guilty by the High Court here and sentenced to death.

Eswaran and Jaswant were found to have trafficked 770.8gm and 780.2gm of syabu, respectively at 1pm on March 18, 2012 at the arrival hall of Terminal 2 in the Kota Kinabalu International Airport here.

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The offence under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 carries the death penalty on conviction.

Eswaran was represented by counsel Ridweandean Borhan.

Meanwhile, the prosecution's appeal against the conviction and 14 years' jail sentence of a private school teacher for having 959.5gm of syabu has been adjourned to Sept 19.

Counsel Dato' Sri Rakhbir Singh, who represented the respondent Suhailah Abdullah applied for an adjournment as he had not received any instruction from her regarding the case.

No objection was raised by the prosecution.

The prosecution is appealing against the reduction of Suhailah's charge from drug trafficking under Section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act which carries the death penalty to a lesser charge of possession.

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Suhailah, 41, was on March 17, 2015 sentenced to 14 years' jail by the High Court after she pleaded guilty to the offence committed at 11.15am on May 27, 2013 at the International Arrival Hall, Terminal Two of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport here.

The amended charge under Section 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 is punishable under Section 39A(2)® of the same Act, which provides for imprisonment for life or not less than five years and liability of whipping of not less than 10 strokes.

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