Mohamed Shalleh Abdul Latiff
Singaporean delivery driver on death row for diamorphine trafficking
Mohamed Shalleh bin Abdul Latiff (1984 – 3 August 2023) was a Singaporean delivery driver who was found guilty and sentenced to death in January 2019 for one count of trafficking 54.04g of diamorphine. Mohamed Shalleh, who was arrested in August 2016, put up a defence that when he took the offer from a friend to deliver the packages of diamorphine, he misbelieved that the contents he delivered were contraband cigarettes instead of diamorphine.
However, the trial judge Hoo Sheau Peng rejected Mohamed Shalleh's claim and therefore sentenced him to the mandatory death penalty for diamorphine trafficking. Eventually, Mohamed Shalleh's appeals to overturn his conviction and sentence were dismissed, and he was executed on 3 August 2023, at the age of 39.
Biography
Mohamed Shalleh bin Abdul Latiff was born in Singapore in around 1984.
Mohamed Shalleh began to consume drugs at age 14. He also went to prison for drug-related offences at one point in 2008 and spent time at drug rehabilitation centres. Prior to his arrest in 2016 for drug trafficking, Mohamed Shalleh was working as a freelance delivery driver (starting from 2015) and earned a monthly income of SGD$2,800. Aside from his delivery job, Mohamed Shalleh also worked as an illegal debt collector for a friend, and through this job, he earned another monthly income of SGD$3,600 and SGD$4,000.
Drug trafficking trial
On 11 August 2016, during a covert operation by the Central Narcotics Bureau, 32-year-old Mohamed Shalleh was arrested for suspected drug trafficking activities.
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