MALAYSIA. BUSINESSMAN TO BE HANGED FOR MURDER AFTER PROSECUTORS' APPEAL

Kenneth Lee Fook Mun, a Malaysian businessman, was sentenced to death after prosecutors won an appeal for harsher punishment over the shooting death of an accountant. Lee originally escaped a death sentence after the High Court convicted him on a lesser charge of culpable homicide for the death of Lee Good Yew, 53, and sentenced him to eight years' in jail. But prosecutors took the case to the Appeal Court, saying the sentence was inadequate. Lee, 53, was originally charged with murdering the accountant by shooting her to death at a highway in Kuala Lumpur in August 2000. He was believed to have been under the influence of alcohol. The Appeal Court voted in favour of the prosecutors and were unanimous in convicting Lee for murder.