Murder Convictions of Najib’s Ex-Guards Overturned in Malaysia
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Malaysia’s Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of two of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s former police guards who had been sentenced to death for the 2006 murder of a Mongolian woman.
A three-person panel chaired by Justice Mohamed Apandi Ali ruled that misdirections by the trial judge rendered their convictions unsafe, the Star newspaper reported online today. Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said he will appeal today’s decision in the Federal Court, the country’s highest court.