Brunei drops a capital cannabis charge and jails the man for nearly six years
A man arrested in January 2016 with 756.33 g of cannabis had faced a trafficking charge that carried the death penalty. In June 2026 prosecutors replaced it with two charges of possession for trafficking, covering 200 g of cannabis and 84.17 g of cannabis mixture, and he pleaded guilty.
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A man arrested in January 2016 with 756.33 g of cannabis had faced a trafficking charge that carried the death penalty. In June 2026 prosecutors replaced it with two charges of possession for trafficking, covering 200 g of cannabis and 84.17 g of cannabis mixture, and he pleaded guilty. The High Court sentenced him on 27 June 2026 to five years and eight months in prison and five strokes, after about ten years between arrest and sentence; it refused probation and reduced the term by a year for the delay.[1]
Sources
- Public Prosecutor v Lim Yen Sheng @ Muhammad Benny Ar-Rayyan bin Abdullah, HCCT 6/2019 (27 June 2026). Brunei Judiciary. pp. 1–6; original charge 756.33 g; substituted charges 200 g and 84.17 g; sentence 5 years 8 months and 5 strokes.