Then last month they withdrew murder charges against Huong, who pleaded guilty to a reduced count of 'causing injury' and was told she would be released in May at the end of her sentence.
SEOUL – A Vietnamese woman who stood trial for the assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother was freed from prison Friday, bringing down the final legal curtain on a dramatic and often bizarre two-year murder mystery.
Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam and Indonesian Siti Aisyah were arrested after being spotted on CCTV approaching Kim but always denied murder. The women insisted they were tricked into carrying out the hit by North Korean agents who said it was a reality TV show prank and fled Malaysia after the killing.
More than two years after her arrest, the 30-year-old former hair salon worker was freed from a prison outside the Malaysian capital at about 7:20 am , her lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik told AFP. While there is a relief for the women, no one else is in custody over the murder and those behind the plot are unlikely to ever be punished.
Kim, who fell from grace in the North after a bizarre attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland, died shortly afterwards, his face smeared with poison. Vietnam then stepped up pressure for Huong's murder charge to be dropped and at the start of April prosecutors offered her the lesser charge, paving the way for her release.
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