Woman witchdoctor, her husband and assistant were hanged...

Woman witchdoctor, her husband and assistant were hanged for the murder of a Malaysian state assemblyman.
Mona Fandey, whose real name was Maznah Ismail, 45, her husband Mohamed Affandi Abdul Rahman, 44, and their helper Juraimi Hussin, 31, went to the gallows after exhausting all appeals for the murder of Mazlan Idris in 1993.
The three were sentenced to death in 1995.
The trio had approached Mazlan with promises of building his career and fortune, then chopped his body into bits and went on a shopping spree with his money.
A US-educated lawmaker in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), Mazlan was said to have sought supernatural help to climb up the party ladder. Before his killing, he was made to lie on a floor, close his eyes and wait for money to "fall from the sky".
He was then beheaded with an axe, skinned and chopped into 18 parts before being buried in a hole and covered over with cement. His grisly death led to calls for a ban on witchcraft.