Judge gives ‘yellow card’

Choose between marriage and training, football player told

THE rocky marriage of football star Mohamad Aidil Zafuan Abdul Razak and model-actress Rita Rudaini Mokhtar was played up in the Malay press, with reports quoting a syariah judge as saying that the sportsman has to decide between saving his marriage and going for football training.

Mohamad Aidil, 25, who is involved in a custody battle with Rita, 36, had applied for a court order on May 15 for her to be loyal to him or be deemed nusyuz (recalcitrant).

At the same time, he also withdrew an application to divorce her and said he wanted the actress and their two children, Airit Rayan Rizqin, four, and year-old Airit Qaqa Arjuna, to move back to his house in USJ1, Subang Jaya.

However, the national footballer was absent for the court proceedings on Tuesday with the excuse that he was tied up with a two-week training stint in Austria.

It was the second time he had been absent. He did not attend a July 9 hearing as he had to prepare for the national squad’s clash with Arsenal.

Syarie judge Wan Mahyuddin Wan Muhammad told lawyer Noor Azlina Che Hassan that her client had to choose between his marriage and football career.

“Not playing football is not a sin,” said Wan Mahyuddin.

The judge fixed Oct 13 for the case to be re-mentioned.

> A man said to be in love with his friend’s wife tried to strip thewoman and attacked her with a blunt object when she resisted, Harian Metro reported.

Victim P. Anjali, 27, received 38 stitches to the head and broke a finger in the 4.30am incident on Monday.

The man had broken into her house in Alor Gajah while her husband, P. Thenagaran, 31, was away at work. The couple’s five children, aged between three and nine, were also in the house.

Anjali said she managed to SMS her husband about the attack before she passed out.

The suspect has been arrested.