Friday April 19, 2013
Sydney M’sian neurosurgeon’s prison sentence slashed
MELBOURNE: A Malaysian neurosurgeon who held cocaine-fuelled sex sessions with escorts has won a reduction in his sentence after a Sydney court agreed that one of the women willingly took the drug which killed her.
Suresh Surendranath Nair, 44, who pleaded guilty in late 2010 to manslaughter and supplying cocaine, had his jail term of two years and three months for supplying cocaine to escort Victoria McIntyre slashed to six months, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Nair will now be eligible for parole in July next year, a year earlier than originally ordered by the Sydney District Court.
McIntyre died after taking the drug at Nair’s Sydney apartment in February 2009.
“It involved a supply ... where both the offender and the recipient were adults and were consuming the drug,” the appeal judgment said.
The judgment said Nair took the drug “to heighten sexual arousal” and might have given it to McIntyre in the hope she would have the same reaction.
But it said that his sentence in the district court was not supposed to be in relation to her death, but only for giving her the drug.
Nair, however, had failed in his bid to have his sentence for the manslaughter of Suellen Domingues-Zaupa reduced. — Bernama
