GEORGE TOWN: A 30-year-old Thai woman was sentenced to death by a High Court here the other day for smuggling in 80 pills of cocaine or 689.1grams, two years ago. Chonmanee Laphathanawat appeared calm when Judicial Commissioner Datuk Nordin Hassan handed down the sentence.
Nordin said the accused’s defence had failed to prove that she was forced to smuggle the drugs into the country. Chonmanee was accused of smuggling in the drug from Brazil to Malaysia via Penang International Airport on February 2013. She had smuggled in the cocaine by swallowing 78 pills and inserting 2 pills into her private parts.
Deputy public prosecutor Amir Hamzah Othman prosecuted while Chonmanee was represented by a court appointed lawyer.
