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Singaporean Soccer Coach in Coma in Chinese Prison

Jailed as alleged drug mule, athlete has heart attack

Jul 11, 2023
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By: Peter Humphrey

A Singaporean football coach sentenced to death in China in 2014 after customs officials found methamphetamine in his suitcase at Guangzhou’s Baiyun airport is in a coma after a heart attack and life-saving surgery in a Chinese prison, his family said today after receiving the news via the Singapore Foreign Ministry over the weekend.

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