Quick ruling on conflicting testimony

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court will make an immediate decision on the trustability of the testimony given by the owner of the fourwheel-drive vehicle which was used to ram into the deputy public prosecutor Datuk Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais’ car, as it was in conflict with her police report.

Judge Datuk Azman Abdullah said this after hearing the testimony from Kulim dictrict police headquarters (IPD) CID operation officer Insp M. Vasu, who is the 36th prosecution witness, on the 27th day of the trial here yesterday.

“I will make the decision on the matter tomorrow (Sept 30), at the earliest,” the judge said.

On Wednesday, Azman said the testimony by the female witness, S. Yogeswari, a tailor, who is also the owner of the Mitsubishi Triton, was in conflict with her police report.

Earlier, the judge questioned the police inspector who recorded Yogeswari’s statement at the Kulim IPD at 6.30pm on Sept 27, 2015.

Azman: In her testimony (in court) yesterday (Wednesday) and the day before (Tuesday), Yogeswari said she told you that every night (between Aug 2 and Sept 11, 2015) Selvam took the vehicle back to her house, but you did not write it down. If that is what she told you, did you choose what to write or did you just write everything down? Vasu: I wrote everything down. I took note of everything she said. I neither added nor denied any statements given by her.

During the examination-inchief by deputy public prosecutor Saiful Edris Zainuddin earlier, Vasu said Yogeswari did not tell him that the vehicle was at her house every night during the said dates.

Vasu said Yogeswari also read the report and signed it without making any changes or amendments.

The 13th prosecution witness, a chemist at the Perak branch of the Chemistry Department, Khairul Anuar Abdul Aziz, who was also recalled yesterday, confirmed that the exhibit, a grinder, found in Kuala Selangor river at Km46, Jalan Klang-Teluk Intan on Sept 19 last year, could be used for scraping a car’s engine.

G. Gunasekaran, 48; R. Dinishwaran, 24; A.K. Thinesh Kumar, 23; M. Vishwanath, 26; S. Nimalan, 23; and Ravi Chandaran, 45, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering Kevin Morais between 7am and 8pm between Jalan Dutamas Raya Sentul and No. 1 Jalan USJ1/6D, Subang Jaya, on Sept 4, 2015.

Col Dr R. Kunaseegaran, 53, the first accused, had pleaded not guilty to a charge of abetting the six men in the murder on the same day and at the same time and place.

The trial continues today. – Bernama