KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader was freed on Monday after the Malaysian prosecutors withdrew the murder charge against her.

Siti Aisyah, 26, smiled as she was ushered through a pack of journalists and into a car outside the court, where she had been on trial alongside a Vietnamese woman for the murder of Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.

“Siti Aisyah is freed,” judge Azmin Ariffin told the Shah Alam High Court, as he approved a request from the prosecutor to drop the charge against her of murdering Kim Jong Nam.