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Malaysian ex-cops Azilah Hadri (left) and Sirul Azhar Umar at the courthouse in Shah Alam, outside Kuala Lumpur, in 2009.
PHOTO: REUTERS
SYDNEY - For the past three weeks, former Malaysian cop Sirul Azhar Umar has been living in Canberra after being freed from a detention centre
He had been detained following his flight to Australia, after he was sentenced to death in Malaysia in 2015 for the murder of a 28-year-old Mongolian woman.
