PHNOM PENH, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld the decision of a lower court to sentence three foreign drug traffickers to between 23 and 27 years in prison for heroin trafficking.
Presiding judge Pol Sam Ouen said the court decided to uphold the Phnom Penh Municipal Court's verdict on May 28, 2014 that convicted then 19-year-old French girl Charlene Savarino, 23-year-old Nigerian man Precious Chneme Nwoko, and 41-year-old Australian woman Ann Yoshe Taylor of smuggling heroin to Australia.
At that time, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced Savarino to 25 years in jail, her boyfriend Nwoko, who was the mastermind, to 27 years and Taylor to 23 years.
The trio were arrested in September 2013 at the Phnom Penh International Airport for attempting to smuggle 2.2 kilograms of heroin from Cambodia to Australia.
