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Top court upholds death penalty for S’porean man for killing 8-year-old stepson | Scoop
The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence of Singaporean Shawal Senin for the murder of his 8-year-old Thai stepson in 2008 after rejecting his application to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. – Scoop file pic, May 16, 2024
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Top court upholds death penalty for S’porean man for killing 8-year-old stepson

In bid to commute sentence to life imprisonment, lawyer says Shawal Senin's actions did not stem from a ‘heart of evil’ as he just lost his job and was on drugs, despite three-day assault

Bernama
Updated
6:07 PM MYT

 

PUTRAJAYA – The Federal Court here today upheld the death sentence of a Singaporean man for the murder of his 8-year-old Thai stepson in 2008. 

This followed the rejection of Shawal Senin’s application by the three-member panel of judges to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023.  

“Application is dismissed and the death sentence is maintained,” said Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who chaired the panel with Federal Court judges Datuk Zabariah Mohd Yusof and Datuk Abu Bakar Jais. 

Shawal, 47, was sentenced to death by the high court on November 18, 2011, for killing Siwakorn Sukuntha at his residence in Kondominium Pulai View, Taman Kobena, Tampoi, Johor Bahru between 9pm December 24 and 1pm December 27, 2008. 

His appeals to the Court of Appeal and Federal Court were dismissed on April 22, 2013, and January 29, 2015, respectively.  

Shawal’s counsel Bustaman Menon Abdul Hamid Menon pleaded for leniency to commute Shawal’s death sentence to a prison sentence of between 33 years and 35 years. 

He submitted that although it was a tragic case involving a small boy who was beaten over three days, Shawal’s act did not stem from “a heart of evil” or that he had intended to kill the boy. 

Shawal, who had lost his job and was using drugs at the time, beat the child to discipline him, he added. 

Deputy public prosecutor Dhiya Syazwani Izyan Mohd Akhir objected to Shawal’s application and asked the court to uphold the death sentence imposed on him. 

She said Shawal had repeatedly hit his stepson. According to the facts of the case, Shawal got angry and assaulted the child by hand, a hammer, a clothes hanger, and a feather duster. 

He also kicked him the boy when his questions were not answered. His wife tried to stop him but was warned that she would face the same consequences. 

The boy’s mother testified that Shawal told her he had used a lighter to burn the child’s private parts. 

Shawal’s last resort is to seek clemency from the Johor Pardons Board. – April 16, 2024

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