SINGAPORE: Singapore’s top court on Friday denied a Malaysian murder convict’s final bid to escape the gallows, ending a brief stay of execution and warning his lawyers over “abuse” of the court process.

Kho Jabing, who was sentenced to death in 2010 for the murder of a Chinese construction worker, had been due to hang in Changi Prison at dawn Friday, but was granted a last-minute reprieve after his lawyer filed a challenge.

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