A SINGAPOREAN man will not escape the gallows for an armed
robbery he committed 10 years ago in Johor, after Malaysia's
highest court threw out his appeal.
Lim Tiong Seng, 39, was sentenced to death in 2007 after he was
found guilty of firing his gun five times during the botched
robbery bid in 2001. One of the bullets hit a passer-by in the back
but the man survived.
On Tuesday, the Federal Court in Malaysia upheld Lim's sentence
and that of his accomplice Wang Hup Huat, 51. The Malaysian had
also been sentenced to death in 2007 for abetting Lim.
Explaining the decision of the three-man Bench, Judge Hashim
Yusof said the Johor Baru High Court judge had correctly found the
two men guilty in 2007.
The duo had gone to Eng Heng Huat medical hall in Pontian on
July 14, 2001 at about 5pm.
Lim had asked the shopowners, two brothers, for medicine, saying
he was suffering from kidney failure.
-- ST
There's another time when a man was sentenced to death even
without anybody injured when armed.