Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, a mentally challenged Indian-starting place Malaysian guy convicted in a drug trafficking case, changed into achieved in Singapore today, his own circle of relatives informed the media after his mother’s enchantment changed into brushed off via way of means of the courtroom docket of enchantment on Tuesday.
Dharmalingam, 34, changed into hanged this morning and his stays might be taken again to Ipoh, a town in northern Peninsular Malaysia, Bernama News Agency quoted Dharmalingam’s brother Navin Kumar as saying.
He changed into convicted in 2010 and had exhausted all prison recourse. He changed into first scheduled to be hanged on November 10 closing 12 months however filed a closing-ditch challenge. After his mother’s utility changed into brushed off, the courtroom docket ordered his demise sentence.
Dharmalingam changed into convicted and sentenced to demise in November 2010 for uploading 42.seventy two grams of heroin in 2009, whilst he changed into stuck at Woodlands Checkpoint (a causeway hyperlink with Peninsular Malaysia) at the same time as coming into Singapore, with the package of medicine strapped to his thigh.
The mother, who got here to the Singapore courtroom docket from the northern Malaysia, failed in her closing-minute enchantment to store her son.
“This a closing-minute utility, added simply days earlier than the scheduled execution, and is the 7th utility (now no longer together with appeals) added via way of means of Nagaenthran after his enchantment in opposition to conviction changed into brushed off via way of means of the Court of Appeal in 2011 greater than 10 years ago,” Singapore’s Attorney General’s Chambers stated today.
“It is the modern day try to abuse the courtroom docket’s methods and unjustifiably put off the wearing into impact of the lawful sentence imposed on Nagaenthran,” it stated.
