A young German woman was sentenced to five years in...

A young German woman was sentenced to five years in a Singapore jail after pleading guilty to three drug charges.
Julia Suzanne Bohl, 23, escaped the gallows after lab tests showed the cannabis found in her rented flat in March was less than the limit warranting the death penalty under Singapore's strict drug laws.
"It could have been worse," her lawyer Subhas Anandan told reporters at the court, saying his client and her family had 10 days to decide on an appeal against the sentence. "I don't think she was too upset because I told her to expect around that."
Two of the three Singaporeans arrested with Bohl pleaded guilty to cannabis consumption. One was jailed for 3 years on two counts and the other for 16 months on one count. The third, Mahdi bin Ibrahim Bamadhaj, faces trial on a variety of drug trafficking and possession charges.
Hundreds of people, including dozens of foreigners from Asia, have been hanged in Singapore for trafficking since the city state introduced the death penalty for drug offences in 1975.
Singapore stirred up a diplomatic storm in 1994 when it ignored appeals to make an exception to its tough rules and hanged a Dutch man for trafficking heroin. (With reporting by Edwin Koo).