04 May 2012 :

the Federal Court, in Malaysia, upheld the death sentence on four men convicted for drug trafficking offences. Their final appeals were dismissed by two separate five-man panels which were chaired by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, after ruling that evidence against the men were overwhelming and their convictions, safe. The death sentences were upheld in respect of two separate drug trafficking cases. In the first case, debt collector Ong Lock Soon was convicted and sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court on Aug 11, 2006 for trafficking in 821.9 grammes of heroin at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Sepang at 8.30pm on Feb 28, 2002. Meanwhile, the other case involved welders Mohd Rizal Masiran, 28, Shuhaizal Shuaib, 33 and Mohd Razip Mohd Ali, 42, who were convicted and sentenced to death by the Ipoh High Court on Nov 11, 2009 for trafficking in 2,710 grammes of cannabis at Taman Klebang Jaya, Chemor, Perak, on Oct 29, 2002.