KOTA KINABALU: A former international school teacher from Subang Jaya, Selangor escaped the gallows when the Federal Court allowed for her appeal against a Kota Kinabalu High Court death sentence in 2017 for drug trafficking to be set aside.
The three-member Federal Court bench allowed Suhailah Abdullah's appeal and her conviction on drug trafficking while reducing the charge to only one of possession under 39A(2)(r) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.
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