A Malaysian man has been sentenced to hang for stabbing to death two British medical students on the island of Borneo last summer.
Zulkipli Abdullah, a 24-year-old fish seller, received a mandatory death sentence after being convicted of the murder of Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, in the Malaysian city of Kuching in August.
The two men, both students at Newcastle University, bled to death on the street after an altercation in a bar with a group of five local men, several of whom were found to have taken crystal metamphetamine.
Zulkipli alone was charged with murders, after his companions gave evidence against him. One of them told the court that he had spoken before the attack of wanting to “test his strength”