Kovan double murder: Death row inmate seeks review of LawSoc decision

Ex-policeman Iskandar Rahmat, who stabbed to death a 67-year-old businessman in his home in 2013 as well as his 42-year-old son, being escorted in a car by police officers on July 15, 2013. PHOTO: ST FILE
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An ex-policeman, who was sentenced to death in 2015 for a crime that came to be known as the Kovan double murder, has asked the High Court to review a decision by the Law Society (LawSoc) to turn down a complaint he had filed about his lawyers.

The names of the lawyers were not apparent in a document viewed by The Straits Times.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 28, 2019, with the headline Kovan double murder: Death row inmate seeks review of LawSoc decision. Subscribe