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| Kim Jong-nam trial: last suspect pleads guilty to lesser charge of 'causing hurt' | Kim Jong-nam trial: last suspect pleads guilty to lesser charge of 'causing hurt' |
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| A Vietnamese woman suspected of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother accepted a lesser charge of “causing hurt by a dangerous weapon” on Monday. | A Vietnamese woman suspected of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother accepted a lesser charge of “causing hurt by a dangerous weapon” on Monday. |
| Malaysian prosecutors offered to reduce a murder charge against the Vietnamese woman who is the only suspect in custody in relation to the death of Kim Jong Nam, after her co-accused was released last month. | Malaysian prosecutors offered to reduce a murder charge against the Vietnamese woman who is the only suspect in custody in relation to the death of Kim Jong Nam, after her co-accused was released last month. |
| Doan Thi Huong smiled and said “I’m happy” after prosecutors presented her legal team with the new charge in a Malaysian court and they announced the details. | Doan Thi Huong smiled and said “I’m happy” after prosecutors presented her legal team with the new charge in a Malaysian court and they announced the details. |
| Kim Jong-nam death: suspect Siti Aisyah released after charge dropped | Kim Jong-nam death: suspect Siti Aisyah released after charge dropped |
| Prosecutor Iskandar Ahmad told the court Monday he received instruction from the attorney general to offer a lower “alternative charge” to Doan, which Huong’s lawyer Salim Bashir confirmed was for causing hurt by a dangerous weapon, which carries a maximum of 10 years in jail if convicted. | |
| She is asking for leniency and Bashir said it was “very likely she could walk out free today”. | |
| Doan’s lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that her plea showed Doan “has taken responsibility” for her actions. He also told the court that her move also saved judicial time. | |
| Kim Jong Nam was killed with VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. The women were accused of smearing the toxic nerve agent on his face as he waited to board a flight to Macau. He died within 20 minutes. | |
| Both Siti and Doan claimed they had unknowingly been tricked into carrying out the attack by North Korean operatives, who told them they were playing a prank for a Japanese comedy show. They both claim they thought they were smearing lotion on Kim Jong-nam’s face. | |
| Doan’s co-accused Siti Aisyah was released from custody and flew home to Indonesia in March after the Malaysian court dropped the case against her in a shock decision that delighted her friends and family. | |
| Prosecutors did not give any reason for the remarkable retreat in their case against Siti. Indonesia’s government said Siti’s release was the result of its continual high-level lobbying. | |
| Jokowi, who is facing an election next month, met the Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir, last July to address Siti’s case. | |
| After Siti was freed, the Vietnamese government made an appeal on behalf of Doan, but the court ruled that Doan’s trial could proceed, but would be postponed until 1 April after she was declared “mentally and physically” unfit to testify. | |
| Counsel for Doan told the court that she had not slept for the three nights following the decision by the Malaysian attorney general to drop the charges against Siti. | |
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