Nguyen ‘courageous’ in death
`Convicted Australian drug trafficker Van Tuong Nguyen showed courage going to his death at the gallows in Singapore, his lawyer Lex Lasry, QC, said today. [..]
The 25-year-old was hanged at Changi at 6am local time (9am AEDT), while his mother Kim grieved with friends and relatives at a nearby church at the scheduled time of the hanging. [..]
Prime Minister John Howard criticised the Singapore Government’s “clinical” refusal to let Nguyen’s mother hug her son one last time before his execution.’
