Serious [ Yahoo News ] Singaporeans Do Not Give Chance To Indian Snake : Indian Drug Trafficker Prabu Pathmanathan Must Be Executed At Changi Prison On Friday

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Save Malaysian from death penalty in Singapore, urges Lawyers of Liberty


Esther Landau
New Straits Times24 October 2018

KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers of Liberty has called on the government to help save a Malaysian citizen Prabu Pathmanathan, who will be executed at Changi Prison in Singapore on Friday for alleged drug trafficking.

Its adviser N Surendran said the government must make act to save Prabu from the gallows.

“Singapore must halt the execution of Malaysian citizen Prabu Pathmanathan at Changi prison on October 26, 2018.

“The family of Prabu have been informed that he will be executed at Changi Prison for alleged drug trafficking.

“The family were only informed of the Friday hanging on Oct 20 by a letter from the Singapore Prison Services, which is less than one weeks notice.

“In the same letter, the family has been asked to make the ‘necessary funeral arrangements’,” he said through a statement issued today.

“The continued use of the death penalty for drug offences is a violation of the International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights (ICCPR), of which Singapore is a state party.

“The death penalty is cruel and inhumane, and particularly so when used in drug cases which results in the execution of drug mules from poor socio-economic backgrounds.

“On October 13, 2018, the deputy foreign minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya had assured Malaysians that the government would come up with a solution for Malaysians facing execution abroad,” he added.

On Oct 15, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong had said the Malaysian government would go ahead with plans to abolish the death penalty. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd

 

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Drug courier who escaped gallows last year gets death penalty after Court of Appeal reverses decision

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Selina Lum
Law Correspondent


SINGAPORE - A Malaysian drug courier, who escaped the gallows last year after the High Court reduced his charge, was on Thursday (Oct 25) sentenced to the death penalty after the Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision.

Security guard Gobi Avedian, 30, was charged with the importation of 40.22g of heroin, but a High Court judge believed his account that he did not know the bundles he was carrying contained heroin.

Then, Justice Lee Seiu Kin convicted Gobi on a less severe charge of attempted trafficking of a Class C drug, and sentenced him to 15 years' jail and 10 strokes of the cane last year.

Following an appeal by the prosecution, the Court of Appeal convicted him on the original charge, ruling that Gobi had failed to rebut the statutory presumption of knowledge of the nature of the drugs he was carrying.

The apex court said Gobi should have done more to find out what exactly he was tasked to carry into Singapore, but he "simply did not bother".

The court imposed the death sentence on Gobi, who did not qualify for life imprisonment as he was not certified to have assisted the Central Narcotics Bureau in a substantive way, nor was his mental responsibility impaired.

Gobi's lawyer, Mr Shashi Nathan, told The Straits Times that he would be preparing a clemency petition to the President.
The case hinged on whether Gobi had rebutted the presumption of knowledge.

Gobi, who earned between $1,400 and $1,850 a month as a security guard, said he turned to transporting drugs because he needed money to pay for his daughter's medical fees.

He said he was offered RM500 for each packet of "chocolate drugs" delivered to Singapore.

He said he was told that he would face a fine or "light punishment" if caught.

At first, he declined, but agreed after being assured by his supplier and a friend that such drugs were not dangerous.

Gobi said he delivered drugs into Singapore "eight or nine" times before he was caught at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Dec 11, 2014.

During his trial, he contended that while he knew the bundles contained illicit drugs used in discos, he did not know that it was heroin.

The prosecution argued that Gobi did not take sufficient steps to satisfy himself that the drugs were not those that would attract the death penalty, such as probing the people who gave him assurances.

In its judgment, the Court of Appeal said that to rebut the presumption of knowledge, Gobi must give an account of what he thought was the drug.

It was not enough to state merely that he did not know what sort of drugs he was transporting.

If Gobi intended to refuse to carry drugs that attracted the death penalty, then it was incumbent on him to find out what drugs would lead to such a penalty and how he was to identify them. However, he did not take such steps.

While Gobi asked about the possible penalties, the court said this would not have helped him identify the drug.

In any event, the court, which comprised Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Judges of Appeal Judith Prakash and Tay Yong Kwang, said it had "grave reservations" about Gobi's testimony on the assurances that he claimed he received.


Topics:

• DRUG OFFENCES
• SINGAPORE COURTS
• COURT OF APPEAL
• DEATH PENALTY/CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

 

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FUCKING INDIAN SNAKES
HANG THEM ALL

 

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Where is our good friend M Ravi when we need him most?

 

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PAP is absolutely right to hang all druggies. I support their drug laws wholeheartedly.

Honestly.