(2 Dec 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Nguyen Tuong Van's coffin being carried in funeral parlour, make up artist, undertakers working
2. Undertakers closing coffin
3. Various of funeral service
4. Australian Consul-General Ross Tysoe and a member of his staff arriving at funeral home, media
5. Tysoe and colleague next to the coffin
6. Various of Australian delegation outside
7. Undertakers carrying cofffin out, loading it into van
8. Various of coffin inside the van
STORYLINE
Singapore on Friday executed Australian heroin trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van in a case that triggered an outcry in his country.
After the execution, Nguyen's body was taken to a funeral parlor, where a rosary was placed in his hands.
Australia's Consul-General, Ross Tysoe, visited the funeral parlor and oversaw the body being taken to a chapel on the grounds of a Roman Catholic convent where a private mass was held for Nguyen.
The Nguyen family, their friends and lawyer were to leave Singapore with the body late on Saturday for Melbourne, where Nguyen would be buried.
The execution was carried out early on Friday at Changi Prison after Nguyen failed in his appeals to the Court of Appeal and to President S.R. Nathan for clemency.
Vietnam-born Nguyen, 25, was hanged despite numerous appeals from Australian leaders for his life to be spared.
He had received a mandatory death sentence after being caught with 396 grammes (14 ounces) of heroin at the city-state's Changi Airport in 2002, en route from Cambodia to Australia.
Singapore says its tough laws and penalties for drug trafficking are an effective deterrent against a crime that ruins lives and that foreigners and
Singaporeans must be treated alike.
It said Nguyen's appeals for clemency were carefully considered.
Nguyen was caught with more than 26 times the 15 grammes (0.53 ounces) of heroin that draws a mandatory death penalty.
The Home Affairs Ministry statement said the amount was enough to supply 26-thousand doses of heroin and had a street value of one point three (M) million Singapore dollars (768,500 US dollars).
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