Mum convicted of killing baby in hostel toilet freed
The Court of Appeal today released a 26-year-old woman after she spent almost 6 years behind bars for causing the death of her newborn in 2017.
Nur Izzati Adi was convicted and sentenced to death by the Alor Star High Court in 2020 for murdering her baby through asphyxiation in the toilet on the third level of Kolej Pertanian Malaysia Bukit Kayu Hitam's hostel about 5.20pm.
However, at today's proceedings, deputy public prosecutor Mohammed Mokhzani Faris Mokhtar told the appellate court that the Attorney-General's Chambers had accepted the accused's representation for the charge to be reduced to infanticide under Section 309A of the Penal Code.
The Court of Appeal then sentenced Nur Izzati to 9 years' jail and ordered for her sentence to begin on the date of her arrest on March 30, 2017, with a 1/3 remission for good behaviour.
Judge Datuk Hadhariah Syed Ismail, who led the 3-member bench, then asked the Prison Department officer to release Nur Izatti from her handcuffs before asking her to walk out from the courtroom.
Counsel Datuk Amirul Ridzuan Hanif appeared for Nur Izatti.
On June 14, 2020, the Alor Star High Court sentenced Nur Izzati to death after she was found guilty of killing a baby.
However, the execution was stayed, and she was ordered to serve a prison sentence while awaiting the appeal process.
Nur Izzati, the eldest child of 4, was charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the mandatory death penalty upon conviction.
Source: nst.com.my, Staff, June 20, 2023
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