UPDATED: Kim Jong-nam trial: last suspect pleads guilty to lesser charge of 'causing hurt'

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Original headline: Kim Jong-nam trial: Malaysian prosecutors offer to downgrade murder charge

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Source: The Guardian and agencies

Kim Jong-nam trial: last suspect pleads guilty to lesser charge of 'causing hurt'

Lone remaining suspect Doan Thi Huong faces up to 10 years in jail for role in death of North Korean leader’s half-brother

Kate Lyons and agencies
Mon 1 Apr 2019 03.38 BST First published on Mon 1 Apr 2019 03.18 BST

A Vietnamese woman suspected of assassinating the North Korean leader’s half-brother accepted a lesser charge of “causing hurt by a dangerous weapon” and will be released next month.

Doan Thi Huong welcomed the “fair sentence” after the judge handed down the verdict in a Malaysian court, where she has been on trial for the murder of Kim Jong Nam with a nerve agent.

Doan was sentenced her to three years and four months in jail from her arrest in February 2017. But her legal team said that with usual sentence reductions, she would be released next month.

“In the first week of May, she will go home,” lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told reporters in the Shah Alam High Court, outside Kuala Lumpur.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/kim-jong-nam-trial-malaysia-prosecutors-lower-charge-trial-doan-thi-huong

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