Court commutes Nigerian’s death sentence to 35 years in jail
A NIGERIAN man escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal today commuted the death sentence imposed on him for the murder of a chief nurse at Serdang Hospital to 35 years imprisonment.
Justice Vazeer, when delivering the court’s unanimous decision, said the bench dismissed Gilbert’s appeal against the murder conviction on the grounds that his conviction for murdering Siti Kharina Mohd Kamarudin could be upheld. However, he said following an amendment to Section 302 of the Penal Code, the court agreed with Gilbert’s counsel, Afifuddin Ahmad Hafifi, that the death sentence ought to be commuted to imprisonment based on the circumstances and facts of the case.
Earlier in the proceedings today, Afifuddin said Gilbert and the deceased were lovers and living together.
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