Six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students dodged the hangman’s noose over the 2017 death of navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain.

A three-person Federal Court bench today unanimously allowed the six appellants’ appeal to set aside their death sentence for murder and substitute with 18 years imprisonment for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.