29 May 2003 :
It was reported that Nguyen Huu Toan, "a Vietnamese drug addict", was sentenced to death for murdering a friend "to steal and sell his jewellery to pay for his next fix", a Ho Chi Minh City court said.Huu Toan was found guilty of stabbing to death 23-year-old Nguyen Lam Toan, also a drug addict, on May 2002. Huu Toan then sold Toan's gold bracelet and brought some heroin, an official from the city's People's Court said.
Police arrested him two days later.
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 30/05/2003)
