Businessperson escapes gallows for trafficking cannabis

A businessperson today escaped the gallows after the Federal Court commuted his death sentence to 30 years in prison for trafficking 9.528kg of cannabis.

The three-judge panel, headed by Justice Zabariah Mohd Yusof, upheld Mohammad Firdaus Mohsin’s drug-trafficking conviction and dismissed his appeal against it.

In delivering the court’s decision...