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Malaysia: Teacher Escapes Gallows On Drug Trafficking Charge
Bernama Sunday 15 May 2011 Judge Datuk Mohd Sofian Abd Razak ruled that Abidin Morad had raised reasonable doubt on the case of the prosecution. The 54-year-old teacher was alleged to have committed the offence at Kampung Bukit Tembaga in Padang Temak, Kuala Nerang, near here at about 11pm on June 23, 2006. Abidin had told the court that a man named Mohd Nor Arshad came to his house that night to watch a live telecast of a World Cup football match. He had brought a bag which he left beside a sofa when he fled through the back door on hearing the police announcing their presence at the gate of the house. When police entered the house they found only Abidin and one of his children in the sitting room and the bag containing the cannabis. Mohd Sofian noted that Abdidin's wife, who was in a room of the house, had confirmed that Mohd Noh was in the house and had fled. He further observed that Mohd Nor was later arrested in an empty house in the same vicinity. "Although the drug was in the house of the accused, it could have been put there by Mohd Nor because Mohd Nor was caught in an empty house near the 26th kilometre where the accused was detained," Mohd Sofian said. Abidin's family embraced him with tears in their eyes on hearing the verdict. DPP Norhayati Ibrahim prosecuted while lawyer G.Ravishankar defended. http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=586615&cat=nt
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