Judge Ravinthran Paramaguru, who chaired a three-member bench, granted her bail application today after deputy public prosecutor Manoj Kurup told the court the prosecution did not have any objections.

The bench, which also consisted of judges Lee Heng Cheong and Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, also granted Sam’s leave to appeal during the proceeding today.

Sam had posed six questions of law to be determined at the full hearing later. Among these are whether her statement from the dock she gave during her defence trial can be accepted and corroborated with other evidence.

Last week, the Johor Bahru High Court convicted Sam and sentenced her to six years’ jail and fined her RM6,000, or six months’ jail in default, for dangerous driving causing the death of eight teenagers, who were riding the modified bicycles in Johor Bahru in 2017.

The court held that she failed to raise reasonable doubt against the prosecution’s case.

Sam was denied bail, pending her application to seek leave to appeal, and was ordered to serve her sentence immediately.

Her lawyer, Faizal Mokhtar, told the appeals court today that Sam does not pose a flight risk and that she had attended every court hearing.

“Even when the prosecution and defence were infected by Covid-19 during the trial, she still came to court,” he said.

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