Brit 'drug mum' faces death
BRITISH mum Shivaun Fadilah is facing execution in Malaysia after a £16,000 drugs bust.
Cops seized the 41-year-old, her husband Abdul, 46, their 18-year-old adopted daughter and 225g of heroin.
Any discovery of 15g or more of the substance carries the automatic death penalty by hanging in the South-east Asian country.
Seized ... the drugs haulOfficers also found cannabis, amphetamines and ecstasy tablets at the Ranting Resort beach complex which the couple run
Police said Mrs Fadilah of Bangor, North Wales, and her husband were arrested after a tip-off. They are held in cells.
Chief Roslan Abdul Wahid said: "It has been our biggest bust in three years. The value of the drugs haul was put at $25,000 (£16,000).
"Initial investigations show the couple have been hard-core addicts for almost 15 years and we believe they started distributing drugs in the past ten years."
He said Mrs Fadilah had admitted cannabis plants found in her room were for her use. It is believed her husband told police the heroin was his. Five cars were also seized.
It is alleged Mr Fadilah got his wife hooked when she threatened to return to Britain.
Mr Wahid added: "If the heroin, after analysis, tests positive, then anything over 15g carries the death penalty."
Mrs Fadilah met her husband in Malaysia after leaving the UK in 1991 to travel. They have two sons, now 14 and 16, and are based at Cherating, 170 miles from Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.
Mrs Fadilah's dad Mike Orton died aged 73 last year. He worked at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermaston, Berks.
His wife Shirley, 67, of Harlech, North Wales, said last night she had had no contact with their daughter for five years.
She said: "She had been taking drugs and was psychotic. We did not even have a phone number for her. Before he died my husband tried to make contact with her but was unsuccessful."
The British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur confirmed the arrest.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
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