The Court of Appeal today commuted the death sentence of a former odd job worker to 30 years in jail on two counts of trafficking 245kg of cannabis in 2016.

The court also ordered Mohd Faizal Zainal Abidin, 46, to be whipped 24 times.

The Court of Appeal’s three-member panel consisting of judges Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, Azmi Ariffin and Azhahari Kamal Ramli ordered Faizal to serve the sentence concurrently from the date of his arrest on March 13, 2016.

Ruzima, in delivering the court’s decision, said that based on the submission by Faizal’s lawyer Gurbachan Singh, the court has decided to uphold Faizal’s conviction for the offences.

He, however, said the court is exercising its discretion to substitute the death sentence to life imprisonment of 30 years and 12 strokes of the rotan for each offence.

On Sept 9, 2022, the High Court sentenced Faizal to death after finding him guilty of the two charges of trafficking the drug at a house in Jalan USJ 13/3E, Subang Jaya, Selangor at about 3pm on March 12, 2016, and at a parking lot in USJ 13/3E, Subang Jaya, Selangor at the same time and day.

- Bernama

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