Norasharee bin Gous (22 November 1973 – 7 July 2022) was a Singaporean who was found guilty of soliciting a man named Mohamad Yazid Md Yusof to traffic 120.90g of diamorphine (heroin).
While nothing was known about his family or background, court documents revealed that Norasharee was formerly a member of the local street gang '369' (or Salakau) during his younger years.
After police investigations, the real identity of Yazid's alleged instigator "Boy Ayie" was revealed as Norasharee Gous.
Yazid alleged that Norasharee had personally met him at Vivo City on 23 October 2013 and told him to collect the drug bundles from a Malaysian courier (referring to Kalwant), to which Norasharee denied and claimed in his defence that he had met up with a colleague at Marina Keppel Bay for lunch at Vivo City.
On 1 June 2016, the High Court found that Yazid was a truthful witness and hereby rejected Norsharee's defence and therefore convicted him as charged.
He also found that the witness to be contradictory and inconsistent between written declarations, and his late appearance in the case to testify for Norasharee had also undermined his credibility.
The lawsuit, which was filed by Norasharee and 21 other death row prisoners (including Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, Iskandar Rahmat, Gobi Avedian and Datchinamurthy Kataiah), was about claims that the private letters between the death row inmates and both their lawyers and families were being forwarded from prisons to the Attorney General's Chambers of Singapore (AGC), and it led to these said inmates pursuing legal proceedings against the AGC or its members for alleged breaches of conduct to protect the inmates' rights, misconduct in public office and seeking damages for any harm caused by such.
[28][29][30][31] Subsequently, Norasharee, then aged 48, also received his death warrant, and his execution was scheduled to take place on 7 July 2022, the same day as Kalwant.
Both Kalwant and Norasharee were the third and fourth drug convicts to be executed in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic, after Abdul Kahar (30 March 2022) and Nagaenthran (27 April 2022).
Norasharee's funeral was conducted shortly after his family retrieved his remains, which were transported to the Masjid Pusara Aman Mosque.
[40][41][42] Over a hundred people showed up at Norasharee's burial at Pusara Abadi Muslim cemetery in Choa Chu Kang and offered condolences to his family.
Several locals even went into social media to express their condolences for Norasharee, with some who knew him remembered him as a good person despite his past and involvement in drug trafficking.
[44] The European Union also criticized the executions and showed their opposition to the death penalty, which they stated was a "cruel and inhumane" punishment.
[48] The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) responded to the queries of CNN, confirming that the capital sentences of Norasharee and Kalwant were carried out on the same day they were hanged, stating that both men had been accorded full due process and exhausted their appeals before both their death warrants were finalized.