Appeals by 3 Malaysians on demise row in Singapore postponed

PETALING JAYA : The listening to of the appeals by three Malaysians on demise row in Singapore for drug trafficking has been postponed to the top of March.

The listening to was initially scheduled for at this time.

Datchinamurthy Kataiah, Pannir Selvam Pranthaman and Saminathan Selvaraju are among the many 12 who can have their appeals heard.

Pannir’s sister, Angelia, 29, instructed FMT the judges need the prisons division and the Legal professional-Common’s Chambers (AGC) to elucidate how personal correspondence between the trio and their legal professionals ended up being forwarded to the AGC.

“The judges additionally need to know who on the AGC noticed the letters, once they have been forwarded, and so forth,” she mentioned.

In keeping with Angelia, the judges mentioned none of this proof was offered through the earlier hearings involving the trio.

Datchinamurthy, Pannir and Saminathan are interesting their conviction on grounds that their personal correspondence with their counsel had on a number of events been copied and forwarded to the AGC with out their information or consent.

Datchinamurthy was scheduled to be executed final yr. Nonetheless, he managed to acquire a keep of execution from the Singapore Excessive Courtroom on the eleventh hour pending his authorized go well with in opposition to the federal government over his demise sentence.

He was charged with smuggling 44.96g of diamorphine into Singapore in 2011 and sentenced to demise in 2015.

Pannir was charged with trafficking heroin into Singapore in 2017, and Saminathan was charged with trafficking diamorphine with two others in 2013.

One other Malaysian, Gobi Avedian, who was convicted for drug offences however was not handed the demise sentence, will even be interesting his case.