Two
Nigerian college students Mustafa Azmir and Jude Nnamdi Achonye were on
Wednesday December 20, handed the death sentence by a High Court in
Shah Alam for trafficking 3.5 kilogrammes of methamphetamine.
Shah
Alam High Court judge Datuk Abdul Halim Aman made the ruling after
finding that the prosecution had proven a prima facie case against the
accused, Azmir, 28, and Achonye, 30.
According to the criminal
charge brought against them, Azmir and Achonye were accused of
trafficking the drugs at an apartment in Petaling Jaya at 3.30pm on Sept
2, 2014 which is an offense under Section 39B (1)(a) of the Dangerous
Drugs Act 1952.
The facts of the case stated that the
accused, who studied at a private college in Kuala Lumpur, were arrested
by police when they accepted several boxes containing the drug which
was delivered by a courier company at the apartment.
Abdul Halim,
in his ruling, said the court had studied testimonies from 13
prosecution witnesses and two defence witnesses, alongside 73 exhibits
tendered during the trial.
"The defence had failed to raise
reasonable doubt at the end of this case and presented no testimony that
thoroughly refutes the prosecution," he said.
"Besides
that, there were also discrepancies in testimonies of the accused and
their defence only amounted to denial without concrete evidence," he
said.
Deputy public prosecutor Mohd Rehan Mohd Aris appeared for
the prosecution, while the accused were represented by lawyer Leonard
Anselm Gomes.
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