Tyre-shop assistant sentenced to death over 626 g of cannabis
The Shah Alam High Court on 2 September 2009 sentenced tyre-shop assistant Lim Kok Yong, 24, to death for trafficking 625.7 grams of cannabis in Port Klang in 2004. The judge found the prosecution case proved beyond reasonable doubt and imposed the mandatory death sentence.
The Shah Alam High Court on 2 September 2009 sentenced tyre-shop assistant
Lim Kok Yong, 24, to hang for trafficking625.7 grams of cannabis five years
earlier.[1]Judge Su Geok Yiam said she was satisfied that the prosecution
had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.[1]She told the court there was
only one sentence for the offence: death by hanging.[1]
Lim committed the offence at a house in Pandamaran, Port Klang, around
10.45pm on 4 November 2004.[1]He was charged under section 39B(1)(a) of the
Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, which carries the mandatory death sentence on
conviction.[1]The prosecution called seven witnesses during the trial and
the defence three.[1]Lim stood calm in the dock as the sentence was
passed.[1]
A campaign report against Malaysia’s cannabis death sentences the following
January confirmed that Lim was sentenced to hang on 2 September for 625.7
grams from five years before, one of several Malaysians facing execution for
cannabis amounts as small as half a kilogram.[2]
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On 19 October 2026 the Sibu High Court sentenced Tiong Soon Hieng, 41, to life imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane for trafficking 5,081.06 g of cannabis. Judge Wong Siong Tung declined the death penalty and dated the term from his arrest on 6 January 2023 outside a coffee shop in Bintangor.
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.