SINGAPORE: A Malaysian convict has become the first person in Singapore to have a mandatory death sentence for murder commuted after the city-state eased rules on capital punishment.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers said Fabian Adiu Edwin, 23, a construction worker from Malaysia, had his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment. Local media reports said High Court Judge Chan Seng Onn considered Fabian’s age at the time of the crime and low IQ in imposing the prison sentence, plus 24 strokes of the cane, on Tuesday.
Fabian’s lawyer had argued that his client was aged just 18 when he killed security guard Loh Eee Hui, during a robbery.
AFP
