K Devaaswin was charged in September 2021 with the murder of Hafiz Syamir Dzul Asri, 19, and Nur Afiqah Abdul Karim, 18. (Bernama pic)SHAH ALAM: The man who drove against traffic and killed two teenagers in a 2021 Federal Highway crash was sentenced to nine years’ jail after the High Court here reduced his murder charges to culpable homicide.

Justice Bhupinder Singh said the prosecution, which called 14 witnesses, had not proven the ingredients of murder against K Devaaswin, 29.

He amended the charges to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304(b) of the Penal Code, to which Devaaswin pleaded guilty.

The court also imposed a fine of RM30,000 for each death, bringing the total to RM60,000. The jail terms are to run concurrently from the date of his arrest.