Malaysian drug trafficker Nagaenthran Dharmalingam 'accorded full due process under the law': President Halimah

Nagaenthran was sentenced to demise in 2010 for importing 42.72g of pure heroin into Singapore in 2009 in a bundle strapped to his thigh. Nagaenthran failed in his appeals to the High Court in 2011, to the Apex Court in 2019, the place a court docket of 5 judges together with the Chief Justice dismissed his functions, and in his petition to the president for clemency.Lawyer M Ravi had filed a court docket utility in November this yr stating that Nagaenthran possesses the psychological age of somebody beneath 18. He argued that judicial mercy ought to be exercised to grant Nagaenthran a reprieve from the execution of the demise sentence, pending additional psychiatric examinations and reviews on his psychological state.However, he was discovered by the trial decide to not be affected by any diploma of mental incapacity, regardless that it was accepted that he had borderline mental functioning. The utility was then dismissed.