KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s appeals court yesterday commuted the death sentence of an Iraqi fisherman who killed a coast guard to life imprisonment, according to the court verdict.
Taha Mahmud Sabhan was handed the death sentence by the lower court in November 2012 for killing a Kuwaiti coast guard in a shoot-out in January last year. Two of the seven were handed three-year sentences by the court and a third, who is a minor, was jailed for a year. The remaining four received life terms in absentia after they fled.
But the appeals court yesterday commuted all the life terms to three years in jail and upheld the other sentences.
AFP
