MALAYSIA: RUBBER TAPPER TO HANG FOR GIRL’S MURDER

Judicial Commissioner Datuk Zakiah Kassim of the Malaysian High Court sentenced rubber tapper Mohd Haris Abdul Talib, 28, from Kupang in Baling, to a mandatory death sentence. He allegedly murdered 17-year-old girl Farhanim Ahmad Ibrahim between March 29 and April 4, 2009, in Kupang, Baling.