KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today set aside the drug abuse conviction of Ahmad Saiful Islam, the son of former defence minister Mohamad Sabu, or better known as Mat Sabu.
Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, in allowing Saiful’s appeal, said police collected only one sample of his urine for analysis.
“The appellant has been deprived of two samples of urine and this strict procedural guideline must be complied with,” he said.
Saiful was accused of using THC-type drugs at a hotel here at 2.05am on Jan 5, 2019.
On June 24 last year, magistrate Mohamad Aizat Abdul Rahim sentenced him to eight months’ jail after finding that the defence had failed to raise reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case.
The court also ordered him to serve his jail term from June 24 last year and to undergo two years’ surveillance under the National Anti-Drug Agency after completing the sentence.
Saiful was freed on bail of RM9,000 pending the outcome of his appeal.
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