MALAYSIA. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING STEPDAUGHTER

army lance corporal Shahrul Izwan Ahmad Zaidi was sentenced to death by hanging in Malaysia after the High Court in Taiping found him guilty of murdering his four-year-old stepdaughter. Shahrul, 28, was charged with murdering Nur Syafrida Md Shukor, his wife’s daughter from a previous marriage, at their Kampung Pasir home in Kamunting on June 25, 2002.