Court Frees British Man Sentenced to Hang
A British man who had been sentenced to death for drug smuggling was freed after two years in prison.
The High Court sentenced David Anthony Chell, 58, to death by hanging last year after he was found guilty of heroin trafficking. Police arrested Chell, a psychiatric nurse, at the airport in the city of Penang in 1998 carrying 6.6 ounces of heroin.
But three judges ruled on appeal that Chell’s trial had too many “contradictions and inconsistencies” to justify the conviction, the Bernama national news agency reported.
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