HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A court in southern Ho Chi Minh City upheld the death sentence against an Australian man of Vietnamese origin convicted of heroin trafficking, a court official said Thursday.
The death sentence was reaffirmed on Tony Manh, 40, of New South Wales, at the one-day trial at the city's People's Court of Appeals on Wednesday, said the court official, who declined to give his name citing policy.
"There was no new evidence to support the reduction of his death sentence," he said.
Manh was convicted of trafficking 0.948 kilograms (2 pounds) of heroin and sentenced to death in September.
He was arrested in March after security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found the drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney, Australia.
Source : The Associated Press
The death sentence was reaffirmed on Tony Manh, 40, of New South Wales, at the one-day trial at the city's People's Court of Appeals on Wednesday, said the court official, who declined to give his name citing policy.
"There was no new evidence to support the reduction of his death sentence," he said.
Manh was convicted of trafficking 0.948 kilograms (2 pounds) of heroin and sentenced to death in September.
He was arrested in March after security officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City found the drugs hidden on his body as he was about to board a plane to Sydney, Australia.
Source : The Associated Press
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