“These minor offenders are usually poor, young, desperate and/or very impressionable. This is well illustrated by the much-publicised case of Yong Vui Kong who is on death row in Singapore after being arrested and convicted for being in possession of 47.26 grammes of diamorphine when he was just 18.
“He (Yong) represents one of the many thousands of small fish (in an elaborate international or domestic web) that are caught by governments every year and a victim of the growing drug mule recruitment drive in Southeast Asia and East Asia,” Thiru pointed out.
Furthermore, both in Singapore and Malaysia, there is a legal presumption that the accused who is in possession of drugs in excess of the proscribed weight limit is guilty of trafficking, and that the accused is deemed to know what he or she carries.
The burden is, therefore, on the accused to prove his or her innocence.
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