Sosilawati murders: Prosecutions application to declare witness hostile rejected

Sosilawati murders: Prosecutions duplicate to declare witness hostile rejected

SHAH ALAM, January 25 The High Court here currently deserted an duplicate by a charge in a attempted attempted murder conference of cosmetic millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya as well as 3 others to declare a witness hostile, Bernama Online reported this evening.

The news portal pronounced Judge Datuk Akhtar Tahir made a decision after anticipating which a charge had no basement to support a duplicate to declare R. Vakason as such.

In his judgment, Akhtar pronounced he concluded with counsel Manjeet Singh Dhillon, representing N. Pathmanabhan, a first accused in a attempted attempted murder case, which a charge should have a basement to support a application.

Akhtar additionally pronounced he did not see any action by a witness opposite Deputy Public Prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff which could be regarded as hostile.

Ishak submitted a duplicate underneath Section 154 of a Evidence Act on a grounds which Vakasons testimony did not side with a prosecution.

He additionally pronounced which a charge had a right to challenge Vakasons credibility.

During an progressing partial of a trial, Ishak told a justice which a charge would call Vakason to give an eyewitness account, stating which he saw Sosilawati with 3 men in a black BMW car during about 6.40pm on Aug 30, 2010.

Vakason, however, told a justice which he saw nothing suspicious during a plantation in Banting on a date in question, a day a murders were allegedly committed.

Vakason pronounced he recalls conference a car pull up before descending asleep during about 6pm on Aug 30, 2010. He testified which he usually woke up a following day as well as went about his every day duties, while second accused, T. Thilaiyalagan, as well as third accused, R. Matan, fed a goats.

Pathmanabh! an, 43, a former lawyer, as well as Thilaiyalagan, 21, Matan, 22, as well as R Khatavarayan, 32, who were workers during a farm, have been charged with murdering Sosilawati, 47, bank officer Noorhisham Mohamad, 38, counsel Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, as well as Sosilawati's driver, Kamaruddin Shamsuddin, 44.

They have been charged with committing a offence during Lot 2001, Jalan Tanjong Layang, Tanjung Sepat, Banting, in between 8.30pm as well as 9.45pm on Aug 30, 2010.

The offence, underneath Section 302 of a Penal Code, carries a mandatory genocide sentence on conviction.

The conference continues tomorrow.


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