A French national who had been facing the possibility of the death penalty in Malaysia has been acquitted on eight drug-related charges, bringing an end to nearly two and a half years of detention and uncertainty.
Thirty-four-year-old Tom Félix was freed on Tuesday after the High Court in the northern city of Alor Setar ruled that prosecutors had failed to establish that he had control, custody, or possession of the drugs at the centre of the case.
