Siti Aisyah (in brown) and Doan Thi Huong (in purple), charged with murdering Kim Jong-nam, being escorted out of the High Court in Shah Alam. The Kuala Lumpur High Court has set 14 days, beginning Jan 29 next year, for the trial. In June, Malaysia opened a special court that deals with sexual crimes against children, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The 36-year-old man, who admitted to his crimes, was sentenced to 12,468 years’ jail and 24 strokes of the rotan. Koong was tried and convicted by the High Court in Sept 2014 and sentenced to death for murdering Hussain.

Source: New Strait Times December 30, 2017 01:18 UTC