Three friends escape gallows after court acquits them of murder

The Federal Court yesterday acquitted and discharged three friends, one of them a woman, on a charge of murdering a man whose body has yet to be found.

A three-judge panel of the Federal Court chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat ordered the release of Mohd Zulhiami Md Darus, 37, Siti Nor Asiah Abdul Wahab, 32, and Muhammad Rahmat Nazarudin, 29, after allowing their appeal against a decision by the Shah Alam High Court on Oct 24, 2019, in sentencing them to death for the murder.

In the summary judgment...