Victim asked me to take him to hospital, says witness

SHAH ALAM: North Korean Kim Jong-nam had claimed that he was attacked by two women at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) and that the duo had “wiped” his face, the High Court here heard yesterday.

Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) customer care ambassador Juliana Idris, 37, testified that the victim who spoke to her in English with his hands trembling came to her information counter and asked her to take him to the police station.

She was testifying as the second prosecution witness in the trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28, who were charged with murdering Jong-nam — who travelled using the name Kim Chol — at klia2 on Feb 13.

“His hands were trembling, I was wondering why.

“He told me that he wanted to lodge a police report. I was with him for about 10 to 20 minutes,” she said during examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor (DPP) Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin.

Earlier, first prosecution witness Lance Corporal Mohd Zulkarnain Sanudin, 31, told the court that when he met the victim, the latter complained that his eyes were blurry and he could not see anything.

The witness said on that day, the victim, who claimed that his face was wiped by two women, had asked to be led to the clinic because of his condition.

“I was on patrol duty on Feb 13 at 9am at the departure hall of klia2 when this man came to me and asked me to take him to the Menara Clinic.

“He said, ‘Sir, walk slow, my eyes blur, I cannot see’,” Zulkarnain testified.

A third witness testified that a man, the victim, had experienced seizure-like symptoms while he was at the clinic.

Medical assistant at the Menara Medical Clinic Rabiatul Adawiyah Mohd Sofi, 23, told the court that the victim experienced seizure-like symptoms while he was at the clinic.

She said the victim was brought to the clinic at klia2 at 9.30am on Feb 13 by two policemen.

She said the victim had complained that someone had sprayed liquid on his face.

“At that time, the victim was covering his face saying that someone had sprayed liquid on it. I could see that his eyes were red and he spoke with pain.”

During examination-in-chief by Wan Shahruddin, the witness said when the victim laid down on a chair at the waiting room, he was still conscious and had shown seizure-like symptoms.

“His head was bent, eyes were rolling, he was drooling and his nose was runny... His hands were also twitching,” she said, describing to the court the symptoms of a seizure attack.

She testified that the victim, who stayed about half an hour at the clinic, was sweating profusely before the symptoms appeared.

“I attended to him when he came to the clinic and wiped off his sweat... He was sweating profusely, and each time I wiped off his face with a tissue, he would continue to sweat a lot,” she said.

She testified that the victim was then rushed to Putrajaya Hospital. Earlier, in answering a question from the deputy public prosecutor, the witness said she took the victim’s passport and registered his details on the clinic’s computer system.

“I was at the counter at that time and took the victim’s passport to register him in the system. The name on the passport was Kim Chol,” she said.

On March 1, Siti Aisyah and Thi Huong were charged with four others still at large, with murdering Kim Chol, 45.

Kim Chol was later established to be Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.