RUSSIAN HOOKERS AND THAI WORKERS

Two court decisions on two murder cases within two days and the public is left in a tizzy trying to make sense of our quality of justice and the manner how sentencing is meted out. We have a web designer involved in a crime of passion despatching his Russian "money-for-honey lover" to eternity and he was sentenced to the gallows. Then, we have 5 Thais who after being verbally abused, ganged up on a law student and beat him to death, the Thais were given a 5 year sentence and may be out in slightly 3 years with good behaviour. Whilst I do not doubt the intellectual ability and the impartialness of our judges in their decisions, the talk in the warong kopi is -- to bump off our own citizen by a foreigner is a less risky business than a Malaysian kissing-off a foreigner, much less one whose identity is yet to be known. Let us hope that the de facto Law Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz will soon clarify the issue and put an end to this murmuring of ......

Death for web designer
Link : TheStar By LOONG MENG YEE

Web designer Chian Swee Ong told his Russian girlfriend that he was willing to die for her and to prove it he swallowed 19 pills of painkillers and then slashed his hands.The woman laughed and, in a fit of rage, Chian stabbed her several times. As she was dying, he tried to kill himself by stabbing his chest and then drank a floor-cleaning liquid. He did not die and made several more suicide attempts after that, including drinking an antiseptic and a bleaching fluid as well as taking rat poison
Yesterday, the judge sentenced the 36-year-old to the gallows for killing the woman, whose identity could not be established.....

Darren's mum upset over "short" jail term
Link : TheStar

Disappointment, dissatisfaction and despair.
These are the feelings of Sonia Teh upon learning that each of the five Thais who caused the death of her son Darren Kang received five years' jail each....
The court jailed Sulkifli Muso, 21, Wae Yusoh Wae Salae, 25, Abdun-loh Maming, 21, Abdul Torleh Yama and Masukri Che Mae, both 26, for causing Kang's death at Desa Sri Hartamas here on July 6, 2004.
“Looking at them (the accused), they seem so happy to be sentenced to five years' jail. They don't look remorseful at all,” Teh said.
“They should have been given the maximum sentence. If not, who will learn from it?” .....Just because he (Kang) made some remarks, they had to kill him?” Teh asked.