The Federal Court has upheld the 33-year prison sentences for a woman and her brother convicted of murdering her blind husband in 2020.
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today upheld the 33-year prison sentence for a woman and her younger brother convicted of murdering her blind husband in 2020.
A three-member bench led by Justice Datuk Rhodzariah Bujang dismissed the final appeals by G.S. Angela Dewi and G.S. Vijaya against their convictions and sentences.
The siblings were initially sentenced to death by the High Court in 2023 for the murder of R. Devarajoo, 59. The Court of Appeal later commuted the death sentence to 33 years’ imprisonment in 2024.
The appellate court also ordered Vijaya to receive 12 strokes of the cane. Both were ordered to serve their sentences from the dates of their respective arrests in October 2020.
According to the case facts, the deceased was discovered by his granddaughter lying on a sofa on the veranda of a house in Kajang, covered in blood. He was later transported to hospital by ambulance.
On the same day, Angela Dewi, the deceased’s first wife, lodged a police report claiming a robbery had occurred and that a gold necklace was missing. The case was initially classified as a robbery.
After Devarajoo succumbed to his injuries on Oct 10, 2020, police reclassified the case as murder. Further investigations led to the arrests of Angela Dewi, 50, and Vijaya, 47.
Vijaya later led police to a storage room where a hammer and the missing gold necklace were recovered. Lawyers M. Manoharan, B. Sarathabala and P. Subramaniam represented the appellants.
Deputy public prosecutor Tetralina Ahmed Fauzi appeared for the prosecution.
