High Court erred in awarding RM5 million, stressing the government cannot be held responsible for the actions of two former policemen convicted of her 2006 murder
Another former immigration detainee in Australia has been re-arrested, making him the sixth ex-prisoner to have broken the law this week after being released last month by a contentious high court ruling.
Australia’s Parliament has passed preventive detention laws that will see those released from immigration detention locked up again if they pose any risk of committing serious offences.
The fate of former police corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, who is currently walking free in Australia, remains up in the air as its government is looking to pass new preventative detention laws by tomorrow.
Sent to the gallows for murder by the Malaysian Federal Court almost a decade ago after exhausting all avenues of appeal, former police corporal Sirul Azhar Umar now walks freely in Australia based on a legal technicality.
