Delivery man sentenced to death for 299 g of cannabis in Kuala Lumpur
The Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced delivery man Muhammad Hafizul Rashid Emmy, 29, to death by hanging for trafficking 299.09 grammes of cannabis found at a house in Bandar Tasik Selatan, Cheras in March 2018.
🇲🇾 Bandar Tasik Selatan, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur · Malaysia
The High Court in Kuala Lumpur sentenced Muhammad Hafizul Rashid Emmy, 29, a delivery man, to death by hanging on Friday 3 September 2021 after finding him guilty of trafficking in 299.09 grammes of cannabis three years earlier.[1][2]He broke down in tears in the dock, and a woman believed to be a family member wept in the public gallery.[1]
Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah found that the defence had failed to raise a reasonable doubt over the prosecution’s case on possession and had failed to rebut the trafficking presumption under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.[1]He then imposed the death sentence as provided for the offence.[1]
A 2018 raid in Cheras
Hafizul had been charged with trafficking in the drug at a house in Bandar Tasik Selatan, Cheras, at 11.50 pm on 8 March 2018.[1]The offence carries death by hanging or life imprisonment with whipping on conviction.[1][2]Deputy public prosecutor Izalina Abdullah prosecuted, while the accused was represented by lawyer Suzana Norlihan.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
A DPA summary of the verdict spells the convict's name Mohamad Hafidul Rafiz Emmy, while The Star gives Muhammad Hafizul Rashid Emmy; the report follows The Star.
The Star reports the charge as section 38B(1)(a), an apparent misprint for section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952; the report states no section number for the charge itself.
Cannadelics describes the case loosely as an appeal matter, while the September 2021 event in the opened sources is the High Court verdict.
No later appeal outcome was reported in the opened sources.
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Cannabis 5.081 kgPrison life imprisonment and 12 strokes
Kuala Lumpur High Court on 29 September 2026 sentenced Dasham Novada Wickramathunga, 33, to 10 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to an alternative charge over about 2.57 kg of cannabis found at a Jalan Ipoh residence in April 2024.
S. Mohan, 38, and Ahmad Shamil Abdul Rashid, 28, were sentenced to 30 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for trafficking 139 kg of cannabis from a Bangsar car park in 2022. The judge found the case proven beyond reasonable doubt; the prosecution had sought the heavy term over the quantity.
Malaysia's Federal Court reinstated the trafficking convictions and 30-year sentences of Azril Azhar Ahmad and Zulfattar Md Ridzuan for 264.36 g of cannabis, after the Court of Appeal had reduced the charge to possession. Both had been released in February 2026.