The Federal Court today upheld the death sentence imposed on a former pathologist colonel for the murder of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais in 2015.

A three-man bench led by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat affirmed the murder conviction of Dr R Kunaseegaran, 62, S Nimalan, 31 and S Ravi Chandran, 53.

However, both Nimalan and Ravi were spared the gallows after the court commuted the death sentences imposed on them by the High Court to life imprisonment.