CONVICTED drug smuggler Poon Yuen-chung, spent yesterday, one of the few remaining days of her short life, in prayer.
And with her execution looming on Friday, hope and prayer are all that remain for the 22-year-old from Hong Kong sitting on death row in Singapore's Changi Prison.
She was 18 years old when arrested in 1991 for smuggling heroin into Singapore. Her parents believed she was on a camping trip to Lamma Island.
Poon and her travelling companion, Lam Hoi-ka, denied they knew that $44 million worth of drugs were hidden in their suitcases. They claim the bags were gifts from a Chinese couple they had met in Bangkok.
Lam, who was 17 at the time of the arrest, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Only those over 18 years old can be sentenced to death according to Singapore law.
'Young people should be given certain leeway,' Legislative Council Security Panel chairman Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee said.