13 August 2008 :

Goh Eng Uit was acquitted by the Malaysian High Court of a drug trafficking charge after seven years in remand. The 38-year-old, who works as a debt collector, was freed after judge Lim Yee Lan ruled that Goh was only in temporary possession of the plastic bag containing 32.9g of monoacetylmorphines. "This does not mean that he owned the bag," she said. Goh was charged with trafficking in the drugs at the parking lot of Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Dr Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras, at 7pm on April 17, 2002. He and a Thai woman named Vivi were arrested by police while they waited in a car. The woman was sent back to Thailand after she served a jail term under the Immigration Act for overstaying in the country. "She is an important witness. If she was still here, we would have heard the actual story of whom the plastic bag belonged to," Lim said.