23-yr-old fish seller to die by hanging for stabbing 2 British students to death

A 23-year-old Malaysian fish seller, Zulkipli Abdullah, has been found guilty of murdering two British medical students in Borneo, Malaysia.

According to a BBC report, Aidan Brunger and Neil Dalton, both 22-year-old medical students at Newcastle University were stabbed in a bar in Kuching, Sarawak, in August 2014.

Abdullah said he and other men were involved in a street fight with the students, but denies their murder or being in possession of a knife.

With the guilty verdict, Abdullah faces the mandatory sentence of death by hanging which is the penalty for murder in Malaysia.

In a joint statement, the late students’ parents, Phil and Jan Dalton and Paul Brunger and Sue Hidson, said the tragedy has left them devastated.

"Our sons would soon have qualified as doctors," the statement read.

"Their unprovoked and senseless murders as they were walking home after a night out with other medical students mean that Aidan and Neil will never have the chance to spend their lives caring for and helping others."

They said they are "very proud of both of them and in what they achieved in their all too short lives" but noted that their killer's conviction will not bring them back.

"Although we are pleased that the man responsible for their murders has been held accountable, the guilty verdict does not bring our sons back," they said.

gathered that Abdullah may appeal against the judgement.