Couple On Death Row With 2 Young Kids Dodges Gallows, Drug Trafficking Charges Reduced To Possession
Today, a couple sentenced to death three years ago for trafficking marijuana were exempted from the death penalty.
Their lawyers told a three-member Court of Appeal bench headed by judge Hanipah Farikullah a joint representation made to the Attorney-General’s Chambers last month had been acknowledged.
The prosecution affirmed this, but the specifics of the representation were not disclosed in court.
Hanipah then released K Kavitha, 42, after sitting with judges Ahmad Nasfy Yasin and Nordin Hasan. Her husband, S Jagatheson, 44, was charged with possession and sentenced to 15 years in prison with ten strokes of the rotan.
In mitigation, Jagatheson’s lawyer, P Thaneswaran, stated that his client had already sustained enough by being isolated from his two young children, whereas lawyer R Subash represented Kavitha.
On April 19, 2016, the couple…
