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Malaysian Roshamima Roslan |
The pair were caught, charged and put on trial.
On Friday, the High Court acquitted Mas Swan Adnan, 27, but sent his fiancee Roshamima Roslan, 24, to the gallows for trafficking in 15g or more of the drug.
In his judgment yesterday, Justice Steven Chong said the prosecution had to prove that the two of them knew exactly what sort of drugs they were bringing into Singapore.
Justice Chong said the evidence showed, however, that Mas Swan believed his girlfriend when she told him that the bundles contained Ecstasy pills.
Roshamima's claim was not believable, the judge said, adding that the prosecution proved that she knew that illicit drugs were hidden in their car when they entered Singapore.
When Roshamima was put on the stand, she failed to give testimony that she believed the bundles to contain drugs other than heroin.
In fact, she gave all kinds of explanations when confronted with objective evidence such as text messages; four times, she changed her story of whom she and Mas Swan were supposed to meet the day they were caught.
Her fiance, on the other hand, had consistently stated in his police statements and in court that he believed the bundles contained Ecstasy pills that he was delivering for a Singaporean man known only as Mickey.
Justice Chong said Mas Swan came across as a 'mild-mannered and somewhat timid' person who followed Roshamima's instructions, and that she was the 'assertive and dominant personality'.
The court heard that Roshamima was a drug smuggler before he became one, and that it was she who co-opted him into the trafficking ring.
In short, she played a larger role in the delivery of drugs, noted Justice Chong.
Mas Swan was not immediately released from custody. Prosecutors told the court there would be a lapse of time before he can go free; it is not known how long this will be.
On the night of May 6, 2009, the couple had driven into Singapore through the Woodlands checkpoint.
When an immigration officer scanned Mas Swan's passport, he was immediately alerted to that name being on the blacklist.
The officer then directed Mas Swan to drive to an inspection pit, where a manual search of the interior and undercarriage of the car turned up nothing incriminating.
However, an X-ray scan detected three dark spots in the front left door panel. When the panel was opened, three bundles wrapped in tape were retrieved.
The couple were immediately arrested.
The contents of the bundles were later analysed and found to contain 21.48g of heroin.
Source: The Straits Times, 30 April 2011
Perhaps he was just a better liar.
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