28 Aug 2024
Kamaruddin Bin Abd Rahim [Timbalan (TPR), Jabatan Peguam Negara]
- Citation
- A-05(M)-14-01/2023 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
- Court
- M
- Case number
- A-05(M)-14-01/2023 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
The Court of Appeal held that the prosecution proved a prima facie case and, on full review of the evidence including credible eyewitness testimony, forensic links and the pathologist's findings that injuries were sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, the conviction for murder was safe and must be affirmed; however, applying the current statutory framework abolishing the mandatory death penalty and assessing mitigating factors, the death sentence was excessive and was substituted with 30 years' imprisonment effective from arrest date and 12 strokes of the rotan.