KOTA BHARU: The Federal Court as we speak commuted the dying sentence of an ex-mechanic to a 35-year jail time period and 12 strokes of the cane for killing a girl 9 years in the past.
A 3-judge panel led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Mat unanimously allowed the overview utility by Norhalis Mohamad Zaid, 38, beneath Section 302 of the Penal Code, Section 2(4) and three(1) of the Revision Sentences of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023.
Tengku Maimun put aside the dying sentence handed down on Norhalis by the Temerloh High Court on Oct 2, 2018, and ordered him to serve a 35-year jail time period ranging from the date of his arrest on July 21, 2015.
Norhalis has been imprisoned for 9 years.
Court of Appeal president Tan Sri Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim and Federal Court Judge Datuk Nordin Hassan additionally presided over the case.
Norhalis was discovered responsible beneath Section 302 of the Penal Code for killing Noor Salwana Wahab, 28, a toll booth operator, in an space close to a resort in Seri Kembangan between 6.30 pm on July 17, 2015, and a pair of am the next day.
The Court of Appeal dismissed his attraction towards the High Court determination on Oct 10, 2019; on Dec 16, 2020, the Federal Court upheld the conviction.
Earlier, lawyer Mohd Kamaruzaman A Wahab, showing for Norhalis, pleaded with the court docket to cut back the sentence, stating that Norhalis is a filial son to his father.
However, Deputy Public Prosecutor Norzilati Izhani (*35*)@Zainol requested the court docket to uphold the dying sentence because the crime was heinous.
On July 18, 2015, media reported the invention of a girl’s physique wrapped in a thick material after a automotive pushed by her boyfriend crashed on the East Coast Expressway, believed as a result of drowsiness.
The sufferer was discovered within the entrance seat with an damage on the neck, whereas the automotive driver suffered a damaged rib.
Her physique was taken to Jerantut Hospital right here, and doubts arose as a result of no exterior accidents have been discovered on her physique. The forensic workforce confirmed she died because of the damage to the neck.
