Vietnam stepmom of accused Kim Jong-nam assassin ‘happy’ over new sentence
01 April 2019
Her lawyers had requested the charges against her be dropped altogether after her Indonesian co-accused Siti Aisyah was suddenly released last month, raising her family’s hopes Huong might also come home. Huong’s new sentence is three years and four months in jail, which includes time served since her arrest in February 2017.Vy urged Huong to stay strong until then.Huong smiled broadly following her court appearance attended by her father.
Both women insisted they were tricked into participating in the brazen attack in a busy Kuala Lumpur airport on the premise that it was for a TV prank show.
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