The bench comprising of Deputy Chief Justice, Ambeng Kandakasi and Judges Collin Makai and Thomas Anis, last Thursday upheld an appeal filed by Solicitor General Tauvasa Tanuvasa, on behalf of the State, and commander of Beon Correctional Service Institution, against a Katherine Mal, 55.
Mal was among a group of four were convicted and sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2012.
Tanuvasa had filed the appeal against the National Court decision of Justice David Cannings dated May 8, 2017.