SHAH ALAM: A 29-year-old businessman initially charged with murdering two teenagers in a fatal 2021 Federal Highway crash was sentenced to nine years' jail today after pleading guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The Shah Alam High Court amended the two murder charges against K. Devaaswin to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304(b) of the Penal Code after the prosecution closed its case.
Devaaswin was initially charged under Section 302 of the same code, which carries the death penalty, over the deaths of Muhammad Hafiz Syamir Dzul Asri, 19, and Nur Afiqah Abdul Karim, 18.
The teenagers were killed when their car was struck by a four-wheel-drive vehicle driven against the flow of traffic by Devaaswin at Km8.6 of the Federal Highway, heading towards Kuala Lumpur from Klang, at 1.50am on Sept 12, 2021.
