Posted: 04 April 2011 1920 hrs
SINGAPORE : The Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed
the appeal of convicted drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong, who is
facing the death penalty.
Yong, a 23-year-old Malaysian, was sentenced to the gallows in
January 2009 for smuggling 47 grammes of heroin into
Singapore.
He had launched a petition calling for a review of the clemency
rules concerning the death penalty.
It was turned down last year and he appealed against that
decision.
In delivering the verdict on behalf of a three-judge panel on
Monday, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said Yong's appeal was "devoid
of merit".
Yong's lawyer M Ravi said he plans to appeal again to the Singapore
cabinet to seek for clemency.
- CNA/al