Seremban odd-job worker sentenced to death over 381.8 g of cannabis
The Seremban High Court sentenced odd-job worker Mohd Azman Ahmad, 36, to death on 23 January 2009 for trafficking 381.8 grams of cannabis found on him during a police ambush at the Taman Tasek Jaya Industrial Park in April 2004. The judge rejected a defence claim built on a police report that had mislabelled the drug as heroin.
🇲🇾 Taman Tasek Jaya Industrial Park, Seremban · Malaysia
The Seremban High Court sentenced odd-job worker Mohd Azman Ahmad, 36, to
death for trafficking381.8 grams of cannabis.[1][2]High Court judge
Datuk Azhar Ma’ah held that the prosecution had proven its case beyond
reasonable doubt.[1][2]
Mohd Azman, from Taman Bukit in Ampangan, committed the offence at 6.30pm
on 12 April 2004 at the Taman Tasek Jaya Industrial Park.[1][2]He was
sitting in the front passenger seat of a car stopped near a workshop when
policemen ambushed the vehicle and found the drugs in a pouch he wore and in
a plastic bag hidden under his left thigh.[1][2]
Defence counsel R. Ledchumiah argued that the policeman who filed the
report at the Paroi station had recorded the seized drug as heroin rather
than cannabis, but the judge said the officer had made a mistake that was
later corrected and supported by the Chemist Department’s report.[1][2]Ledchumiah said his client would appeal against the conviction and
sentence.[1][2]
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