Non-White Fishmonger Sentenced to Death for Murder of 2 White Medical Students

Daily Mail
April 5, 2015

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Aidan Brunger and his friend, were both stabbed to death by an Asian fishmonger.

A fishmonger has been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of two British medical students who were stabbed to death in Malaysia.

Aidan Brunger and Neil Dalton, both 22, were attacked in a bar in Kuching, Borneo, in August while on a work placement at a nearby hospital.

Zulkipli Abdullah, 23, had denied murdering the Newcastle University students but admitted being part of a brawl with them and two other people.

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Neil Dalton was in Malaysia on a work placement at a hospital there, helping the very people who murdered them both.

The death penalty is mandatory for murder in Malaysia.

After the sentence was handed down, the parents of the victims paid tribute to their sons and spoke of the devastation their ‘unprovoked and senseless’ murders had caused.

Prosecutor Muhamad Iskandar Ahmad said the court ruled that Zulkipli’s defence was ‘merely an afterthought’ and failed to raise any reasonable doubt in the case.

Mr Brunger, of Hempstead, Kent, and Mr Dalton, of Ambergate, Derbyshire, were discovered lying in the road in the early hours of August 6.

The two men had been working at a local hospital in Kuching – an area popular with backpackers.

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Zulkipli Abdullah has been found guilty of murdering the two students.

They were stabbed and killed after an incident in a bistro or cafe in the early hours of the morning, an inquest into their deaths heard last year.

Five Malaysian men were later arrested but only Zulkipli was charged. His lawyer said he would appeal.

Their fathers positively identified their sons’ remains when they were flown back to the UK.

In a joint statement today Phil and Jan Dalton and Paul Brunger and Sue Hidson paid tribute to their sons who they described as ‘kind, funny and full of life’.

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