Indonesian labourer sentenced to death for 927 g of cannabis in Kuala Lumpur
The Kuala Lumpur High Court on 17 September 2005 sentenced Indonesian labourer Mardani Hussin, 29, to death by hanging for trafficking 927 grams of cannabis. Police had stopped him on a motorcycle in the capital on 22 October 2002 and seized a parcel containing the drug.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced Mardani Hussin, a 29-year-old Indonesian labourer from Aceh, to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis.[1]Hussin had reportedly entered Malaysia without a valid permit in April 2002 and committed the offence six months later.[1]
He was charged with trafficking 927 grams of cannabis in the capital on 22 October 2002.[1]He was riding a motorcycle when police stopped him, searched him and seized a parcel containing the drug.[1]
Sentencing him, High Court judge Abdull Hamid Embong told him many of his countrymen came to Malaysia to earn a proper living and were surely ashamed of his act.[1]
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Cannabis 5.081 kgPrison life imprisonment and 12 strokes
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