Sungai Petani clerk sentenced to death for 2.2 kg of cannabis
The High Court in Alor Setar on 5 September 2010 sentenced clerk Zakaria Ahmad, 32, to death for trafficking 2,207.1 grams of cannabis at a petrol station in Sungai Petani in 2006. The judge held the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt under section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
Judicial Commissioner Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab of the Malaysian High Court in Alor Setar sentenced clerk Zakaria Ahmad, 32, to death for drug trafficking on 5 September 2010.[1][2]Zakaria was found guilty of trafficking 2,207.1 grams of cannabis at a petrol station in Taman Sejati Indah, Sungai Petani, at about 3am on 8 February 2006.[1]He was charged under section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.[1]
The judge said the court could not accept Zakaria’s defence that he had gone to the station that morning to buy cigarettes before visiting his girlfriend, since she was only mentioned during the defence case.[1]After the verdict Zakaria sobbed with his mother and three siblings in the courtroom, then knelt to ask his mother for forgiveness.[1]
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Cannabis 5.081 kgPrison life imprisonment and 12 strokes
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