18 Facts About Norasharee Gous

Norasharee bin Gous was a Singaporean who was found guilty of soliciting a man named Mohamad Yazid Md Yusof to traffic 120.90g of diamorphine.

Norasharee Gous made several appeals against his sentence, and at one point, he was granted a re-trial based on new evidence but sentenced to death.

Norasharee Gous was hanged on 7 July 2022, the same day as his co-accused Kalwant.

Norasharee bin Gous was born in Singapore on 22 November 1973.

Norasharee Gous was involved in several gang fights in the past.

Norasharee Gous left the gang in 2008, but during the time he was working as a bouncer at a nightclub, Norasharee Gous still faced harassment from the Omega gang members.

Norasharee Gous was previously jailed in 1997 for drug consumption, and two years later in 1999, he was convicted and incarcerated for absconding from urine tests.

Norasharee Gous was detained for four years in 2000 for gang activities and released while under police supervision for a subsequent one year period.

In 2006, Norasharee Gous was charged with drug consumption a second time and imprisoned for five years thereafter.

In July 2015, a year and nine months after the capture of Yazid and Kalwant, 42-year-old Norasharee Gous was arrested and charged with instigating Yazid to traffic in not less than 120.90g of diamorphine on 23 October 2013.

Norasharee Gous was brought to trial in the High Court together with Yazid and Kalwant.

Yazid alleged that Norasharee Gous had personally met him at Vivo City on 23 October 2013 and told him to collect the drug bundles from a Malaysian courier, to which Norasharee Gous denied and claimed in his defence that he had met up with a colleague at Marina Keppel Bay for lunch at Vivo City.

Since Norasharee Gous was not a courier, he was sentenced to death.

Norasharee Gous earlier argued in his appeal against the use of Yazid's testimony as sole evidence to convict him, but the Court of Appeal referred to the appeal ruling of Chin Seow Noi v Public Prosecutor, stating that the co-accused's testimony can be used as evidence to determine a person's guilt under the law and they thus dismissed Norasharee Gous's appeal.

Two years later since the loss of his appeal, an application was filed by then 45-year-old Norasharee Gous seeking to reopen his concluded appeal and to receive fresh evidence.

Norasharee Gous found that the witness to be contradictory and inconsistent between written declarations, and his late appearance in the case to testify for Norasharee had undermined his credibility.

Not only the legal lawsuits against his sentence, Norasharee Gous was involved in another lawsuit.

Norasharee Gous's funeral was conducted shortly after his family retrieved his remains, which were transported to the Masjid Pusara Aman Mosque.