KATHMANDU: Dolma Sherpa, a Nepali woman in Kuwait, has been spared death by an appeals court in the Arabian state, Kantipur daily reported in its Wednesday´s edition.
The court commuted the death penalty to prison term on Tuesday after the family of a murdered Filipino maid accepted ´blood money´ of USD $10,000 from the Nepali government on behalf of murder-accused Sherpa, the daily quoted Nepal´s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hamid Ansari. The appeals court approved a letter from the slain maid´s family accepting the money.
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Sherpa was slapped with death penalty by both a lower court and the appeals court, convicting her of the murder. She has been fighting to stave off the death penalty with the help of her family, Nepalis around the world (who donated to raise the ´blood money´) and the Nepali government for the past 20 months. She has been in prison throughout the period.
Ambassador Ansari said the government would now make efforts to get Sherpa´s prison term annulled.
