KUCHING, Oct 21: A husband and wife who forced a woman into sex work to settle a debt of just RM800, then strangled her to death, will remain on death row after the Federal Court threw out their last appeal today.
Seow Pei Chee, 44, from Subang Jaya and her husband Cheung Chia Ming, 44, from Kuala Lumpur had sought to have their sentences reduced, but a three-judge panel comprising Justice Azizah Nawawi, Justice Rhodzariah Bujang and Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah unanimously refused.
In the Federal Court’s decision, Justice Collin said the panel weighed the full circumstances of the case and the public interest. He pointed out that the victim, Heng Heow Lin, 38, was in a vulnerable position, was continuously abused and strangled, and that her body was then stuffed into luggage and discarded by the roadside.
