Aust, pair’s appeals fail
NZPA-Reuter Kuala Lumpur Malaysia’s Supreme Court rejected yesterday appeals by two Australians facing the gallows for smuggling heroin.
But Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, both 28, can now appeal to the State Pardons Board of Penang, where they were arrested in November, 1983, with 180 g (6.3 ounces) of the drug. The two men had appealed against conviction on
charges that carry a mandatory death sentence for anyone found with over 15g (0.53 ounce) of heroin. If the sentences are done they will be the first Westerners to hang for trafficking under Malaysia’s antidrug laws. Lawyers for Barlow and Chambers had argued that the trial judge in July drew unwarranted damning inferences from circumstantial evidence and had erred on
several points. But the Lord President, Tun Salleh Abas, Malaysia’s highest judge, and Judges Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader and Datuk George Seah, of the Supreme Court, upheld the judge’s ruling and the convictions and dismissed the appeals. The Penang Pardons Board can order the hangings to be done, free the men, or commute their sentences to jail terms.
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