Nigerian Student Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Drug Trafficking In Kuala Lumpur

A Nigerian college student was sentenced to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis in Kuala Lumpur.

A judge of High Court, Justice Amelia Tee Hong Geok Abdullah, handed down the decision on Wednesday after the defence
had failed to raise reasonable doubt in Uchechukwu Nelson Ohaechesis case.

According to the judge, the court found that Ohaechesi, 37, was not a witness of truth. She said the accuseds defence was
an afterthought, a pure fabrication and untrue.

She said the court also considered the evidence of the accused in totality to determine if the defence raised by him has
nevertheless cast a reasonable doubt as to the truth of the prosecutions case.

“The court therefore sentences the accused to death and vide Section 183 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the accused is to
be hanged by the neck until he is dead,” she said.

Ohaechesi was accused of trafficking 26,533 grams of cannabis beside an overhead bridge staircase at Taman Connaught Highway (Kajang bound) in Cheras at about 7.45pm on Oct 17, 2010.

A total of seven prosecution witnesses were called to testifywhile the defence only one witness.