Myanmar vendor sentenced to death over 1.98 kg of cannabis
Judicial Commissioner Nordin Hassan sentenced Myanmar vegetable seller Nur Alam Mohd Hussain, 29, to death in Kuala Lumpur on 26 January 2017 for trafficking 1.98 kg of cannabis at a Jalan Kuching petrol station in November 2015. The court rejected his claim that he thought the two envelopes he carried held spare parts.
Judicial Commissioner Nordin Hassan sentenced Nur Alam Mohd Hussain, 29, to death in Kuala Lumpur on 26 January 2017 after finding him guilty of trafficking1.98 kg of cannabis.[1][2]Nur Alam, a vegetable seller from Myanmar, was arrested at the Jalan Kuching Petronas station at 6.50pm on 17 November 2015; the court heard he dropped a bag holding two envelopes and ran when police surrounded him, later saying a man called Thanga had given him envelopes he believed held spare parts.[1]The judge called that defence bare denial and fiction, ruling that Nur Alam must have known the large quantity of cannabis was for trafficking, and the mandatory sentence under section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 is death.[1][2]
The prosecution, led by deputy public prosecutor Ezrene Zakariah, called five witnesses against four for the defence, and Nur Alam stood calm as the sentence was read.[1][2]
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