I will be killed in jail in Malaysia, says Sirul

PETALING JAYA: Sirul Azhar Umar (pix), who was convicted of the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu, does not want to return to Malaysia even if his death sentence is commuted to life in jail.
He said he would be killed in prison, he told The Guardian in an interview.
"I don't want to go back. People say: 'Don't give a pardon'. I would be killed in jail," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
Sirul, who fled to Australia and is currently under immigration detention there, had said he would assist the new Pakatan Harapan government on the case of Altantuya, provided if he was given a full pardon and allowed to return to Malaysia.
He was sentenced to death by the Federal Court in 2015 for murdering Altantuya. He was jointly charged with his superior, former chief inspector Azilah Hadri, but failed to show up at the Federal Court to face the verdict of the prosecution's appeal to overturn a decision by the Court of Appeal to free both men in 2013.
Malaysia was unable to demand for Sirul's return as Australia's extradition laws prohibit a person to be sent home if he has been sentenced to death.