Malaysian gets death for French tourist murder
A Malaysian shopkeeper was sentenced to death on Wednesday after a court found him guilty of murdering a French tourist on a popular resort island.
Stephanie Foray, 30, went missing on Tioman Island off the east coast state of Pahang in May 2011.
Her partially mummified remains were found some three months later buried in a cave on the island.
The verdict comes just weeks after another foreign tourist, British backpacker Gareth Huntley, went missing on the same island during a trek in circumstances that have yet to be fully explained.
A high court in Pahang’s capital Kuantan found Asni Omar, 39, who operated a shop selling beach gear on the island, guilty of killing Foray.
After the death sentence was handed down, Foray’s mother, Irene Mortel, got up, looked at Asni and wept.
“I was hoping for nothing else. That’s all... I know it can’t change anything,” she said of the verdict as she left the court, together with Foray’s father, Joel.
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