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Kim Jong-nam murder trial: Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Huong accepts reduced charge, will be freed in May
- She has been on trial since 2017 for the murder of Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur airport with a toxic nerve agent in a cold war-style hit
- The attorney general agreed last month to withdraw the charge against her Indonesian co-defendant, Siti Aisyah
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A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea’s leader was sentenced to three years and four months in jail after accepting a lesser charge on Monday and will likely be freed in May, her lawyer said.
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“In the first week of May, she will go home,” lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told reporters in the Shah Alam High Court, near Kuala Lumpur.
Doan Thi Huong, originally charged with murder, had pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of causing injury, and the judge sentenced her to three years and four months in jail from her arrest in February, 2017.
She has been on trial since 2017 for the murder of Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur airport with a toxic nerve agent in a cold war-style hit.
It came after authorities last month rejected her initial request for her murder charge to be dropped entirely – a shock decision after the attorney general agreed to withdraw the charge against her Indonesian co-defendant, Siti Aisyah, and she walked free.
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