KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Latest on the trial of a Vietnamese woman in the killing of estranged North Korean scion Kim Jong Nam.
A lawyer for Doan Thi Huong says she is pleading guilty to a reduce charge in Kim Jong Nam’s killing and is asking for leniency.
Huong nodded as the translator read the new charge to her. The translator later told the court that Huong pleaded guilty.
Huong’s lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told the court that her plea showed Huong “has taken responsibility” for her actions.
In asking for a lenient sentence he also told the court that her move also saved judicial time.
The Vietnamese woman is the only suspect in custody for the killing of the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader with VX nerve agent at the Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017. — NNN-AGENCIES
