ĐOÀN THỊ HƯƠNG NAM ĐỊNH

Doan Thi Huong, 30, was charged along with an Indonesian woman of poisoning Kim Jong nam by smearing his face with liquid VX, a banned chemical weapon, at Kuala Lumpur airport in February 2017.

Malaysian prosecutors dropped a murder charge after she pleaded guilty lớn a separate charge of “causing injury”.

“I feel happy when returning to my country,” said Huong, who said she was looking forward to heading khổng lồ her family home, a small town in the province of phái mạnh Dinh, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Hanoi.

Ahead of her arrival, Huong’s father, Doan Van Thanh, told Reuters news agency he was planning to lớn celebrate his daughter’s return with a large tiệc nhỏ in their village.

“We will slaughter some pigs for the party. My daughter particularly likes fried fish, so we will prepare that too,” Thanh said.

Huong’s three Malaysian lawyers shared a letter she had written in prison on Thursday thanking the Malaysian and Vietnamese governments, her lawyers and all those who had supported her over the past two years.

“I thank so much for everybody pray for me in the church & at trang chủ as well,” she wrote signing the letter with her name and a heart.

Weeks earlier, Indonesian Siti Aisyah – the only other person khổng lồ face trial over the killing – was released & flew trang chủ after her murder charge was withdrawn.

The pair always denied having committed murder, arguing that they were pawns in a plan hatched by North Korean agents who fled Malaysia after the killing.

South Korea accused Pyongyang of plotting the assassination.

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Other suspects in the killing of Kim Jong nam have escaped justice.

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has obtained exclusive pictures of the man believed to be the chemist who prepared the VX nerve agent that killed Nam.

In exclusive clip thought to be captured in late 2017, he is seen, relaxed and happy while singing Karaoke in a restaurant in trung quốc with his wife and friends.

“There was a golden opportunity khổng lồ hold them accountable,” Hoo Chiew Ping of the National University of Malaysia told Al Jazeera.

“We have completely lost that.”

While there is relief for the women – who said they believed they were taking part in a TV show prank – those behind the plot are unlikely to lớn ever face justice.

“The assassins have not been brought to lớn justice,” said Hisyam, adding the women’s legal teams consistently argued their North Korean handlers were the real murderers.

The pair were arrested after they were captured on airport CCTV cameras walking up behind Kim, as he waited for a flight, & one was seen clasping her hands over his face.

Kim, heir apparent khổng lồ North Korea‘s leadership until he was exiled from his homeland, died in agony shortly afterwards, his face smeared with poison.

The defence stage of the case was due khổng lồ start in March, but in a shock move, prosecutors announced they were withdrawing the murder charge against Aisyah, 27, & she flew back to Jakarta.

Her release followed intense diplomatic pressure from Indonesia, including from President Joko Widodo.

Vietnam then stepped up pressure for Huong’s murder charge lớn be dropped. Their initial request was refused, but at the start of April prosecutors offered her a reduced charge, paving the way for her release.