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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.
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SYDNEY - For the past three weeks, former Malaysian cop Sirul Azhar Umar has been living in Canberra after being freed from a detention centre where he spent almost nine years.
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.
