KUALA LUMPUR: A Nigerian college student gets death for trafficking
26.5kg of cannabis four years ago.
High Court judge Datin Amelia Tee Hong Geok Abdullah today sentenced
Uchechukwu Nelson Ohaechesi, 37, to be hanged for trafficking the
drugs at the side of an overhead bridge stairwell at the Kajang-bound
Taman Connought highway, Cheras here, around 7.45pm on Oct 17, 2010.
Amelia ruled that Uchechukwu failed to raise reasonable doubt in the
prosecution's case and that his defence amounted to "an afterthought,
pure fabrication and untrue".
She said his defence that his alleged friend Ogochukwu Hilire carried
the bag containing the dangerous drugs contradicted his earlier
cautioned statement to the police that he carried the bag.
She said if the drugs did not belong to Uchechukwu, he would have
wasted no time in conveying this fact to the police after being
arrested.
"In light of the many contradictions and the unfathomable evidence of
the accused coming to Malaysia to study English, and to play football,
the court finds that the accused is not a witness of truth," she said.
Prosecution, conducted by deputy public prosecutor P. Vicknesvaran,
had called seven witnesses to testify while Uchechukwu was the sole
witness who testified for the defence.
Counsel Ramzani Idris acted for Uchechukwu.