SINGAPORE — Former police officer Iskandar Rahmat, who has been on death row since 2017 for a shocking double murder in the Kovan area four years before, lost an appeal to the apex court on Monday (July 5) concerning his former team of trial lawyers. However, this is not the end of the road just yet for Iskandar, now aged 42. His new lawyer M Ravi told TODAY that he will next be challenging the constitutionality of murder as framed under Section 300(a) of the Penal Code. The Court of Appeal had already dismissed his appeal against the conviction and sentence. President Halimah Yacob also subsequently rejected his clemency plea, effectively condemning him to hang for his crime. Monday’s hearing came after Iskandar, an ex-investigation officer, failed in a 2019 bid to ask the High Court to review a decision by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc). Then self-represented, he had lodged a complaint against the six defence lawyers who represented him during his murder trial, saying that the...
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