00:00The Court of Appeal today acquitted composer and singer Yassin Sulaiman on all three drug-related
00:07charges. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel comprising Justices Cheruzima Ghazali,
00:14Colin Lorenz-Sekera, and Azmi Arifin overturned the High Court's conviction sentencing Yassin
00:20to life imprisonment and 16 strokes of the rotan. However, it reinstated the Sessions
00:26Court's decision ordering Yassin to be placed at Hospital Bahagya Ulukinta, Pera at the pleasure
00:32of the Sultan of Selangor. The Appeals Court ruled that the lower court had made an error
00:36when it dismissed the report provided by the first defense witness, Dr. Ian Lloyd Anthony,
00:41a consultant forensic psychiatrist from Hospital Bahagya, as hearsay. The court also noted that
00:47the trial judge had made findings on the issue of legal insanity, but there was no detailed
00:52elaboration provided on these. On August 22, 2024, the Shalam High Court sentenced the
00:58Mimfi Laila Singer to life imprisonment and ordered that he also be given 16 strokes of
01:03the rotan after he was convicted of the three drug-related charges.
01:08On August 22, 2021, I'm Nishar Jereza, FMT.
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