PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court yesterday upheld the conviction, 30-year jail sentence and whipping of an odd-job worker who killed his friend and lived with the corpse for four days.

A panel of three judges presided by Justice Tan Sri Nallini Pathmanathan, sitting with Justices Datuk Nordin Hassan and Datuk Hanipah Farikullah, dismissed Mohd Azhud Ibrahim's appeal against his conviction and sentences.

Justice Nallini said Azhud's lawyer submitted that the prosecution had not made out a prima facie case against his client, but the court found that there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to prove a prima facie case against the accused.

Mohd Azhud, 33, was appealing against the Court of Appeal's decision last year which upheld his murder conviction,  but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.