Only remaining suspect pleads guilty to lesser charge in killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother
The move to reduce the charge against the Vietnamese woman, Doan Thi Huong, came three weeks after an even more stunning development in the case, when prosecutors unexpectedly dropped the murder charge against Huong's Indonesian co-defendant and immediately freed her.
Huong and the Indonesian woman, Siti Aisyah, have said they thought they were participating in a prank for a TV show and did not know they actually had been taking part in a high-profile murder. The two were arrested and accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim's face. The murder charge that Huong had faced carried the death penalty if she was convicted. Huong nodded Monday as a translator read the new charge to her: voluntarily causing injury with a dangerous weapon, VX nerve agent.
While handing out a jail term short of the maximum 10 years the new charge carried, the judge told Huong she was "very, very lucky" and wished her "all the best." Vietnamese officials in the courtroom cheered when the decision was announced. A High Court judge last August found there was enough evidence to infer that Aisyah, Huong and the four North Koreans engaged in a "well-planned conspiracy" to kill Kim and called on the two women to present their defence.
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