Ipoh court sentences two men to death over 971 g of cannabis
The Ipoh High Court on 8 October 2008 sentenced Khairil Anuar Abdul Rahman and Afendi Adam to death by hanging for trafficking 971 grams of cannabis in 2002. Their lawyers were expected to appeal against the conviction and sentence.
The Ipoh High Court sentenced Khairil Anuar Abdul Rahman and Afendi Adam to death for trafficking971 grams of cannabis.[1][2]
Judicial Commissioner Ridwan Ibrahim of the Ipoh High Court sentenced Khairil Anuar Abdul Rahman, 34, and Afendi Adam, 28, to death by hanging on 8 October 2008.[1][2]The court found both men guilty of trafficking nearly a kilogram of cannabis six years earlier, and the judge said the court had no choice but to impose the death sentence once the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.[1][2]He gave no grounds for the judgment.[1]
Khairil Anuar, a restaurant worker, and Afendi, a painter, had been charged on 12 March 2002 with trafficking 971 grams of cannabis at Jalan Rokam, Taman Razaki, on 28 February 2002, together with another person who was still at large.[1][2]Deputy public prosecutor Julia Ibrahim prosecuted, while Manjeet Kaur and Ranjit Singh Sandhu defended the two men.[1]Their lawyers were expected to appeal against the conviction and sentence.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The available accounts are the original New Straits Times report and a Hands Off Cain reprint of a Bernama dispatch with the same facts; no separate second newsroom account was found.
The reports give no grounds for the judgment and do not say what became of the expected appeals.
A third person allegedly involved was still at large at the time and is not named.
No photograph of the event with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
Both opened pages reprint the same agency dispatch, so no independent second newsroom account of the trial was found.
The reports give the offence as Jalan Rokam, Taman Razaki (Ipoh) but do not name the High Court's city outright.
The reports say an appeal was expected but record no outcome.
No photograph of the accused or the proceedings with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
The original report was imported without a recorded creator model; its original unknown attribution is preserved.
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