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SHAH ALAM: The police had no reason or opportunity to fabricate evidence to
frame Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar for Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder, the High
Court heard yesterday.
DPP Tun Abd Majid Tun Hamzah said that a pair of bloodstained
slippers, found in Sirul's car, was not planted.
The probable explanation how traces of blood found its way there was that
Altantuya had bled in the car while she was with Sirul and his co-accused Chief
Inspector Azilah Hadri on the night she disappeared, he said.
"How could the police do such a thing (plant evidence) when her blood was never
found at the crime scene?" he asked, adding that only Altantuya's bone fragments
were found.
"The deceased must have been in the car at the time of the alleged offence."
He added that Altantuya's remains were found on Nov 6, 2006, while the
examination on Sirul's vehicle was carried out on Nov 9, 2006.
Tun Abd Majid was submitting at the end of the prosecution's case in the trial
of Azilah, 31, and Sirul, 36, both members of the Special Action Squad, who are
charged with murdering Altantuya at Mukim Bukit Raja, Selangor, between 10pm on
Oct 19 and 1am the following day.
Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, 47, is charged with abetting them.
Tun Abd Majid said a witness from the forensics department, Superintendant Soo
Me Tong, had testified that fingerprints could not be lifted from the slippers
because their surface was rough.
He also said Soo did not swab the slippers as there were no traces of sweat.
"Soo also testified that a 9mm SME 06 bullet casing was also found in Sirul's
vehicle. After a ballistics test, it was confirmed that the bullet was
discharged from a MP5 gun, which was issued to Sirul between Oct 4 and Oct 30,
2006.
"Based on the totality of the evidence available and the information given by
Azilah to Chief Inspector Koh Fei Cheow (Azilah had allegedly pointed out to Koh
the place where the Mongolian woman was shot), the court can infer that the
bullet casing found in Sirul's case was the result of the shot fired that
night."
He also said that there were communications between Azilah and Sirul, and Azilah
and Razak.
"Looking at the proximity of time and location of the communications between the
three and the transaction records from Sirul's Touch 'n Go card, we submit that
Altantuya must have been in the car and taken to the scene where she was
murdered.
Tun Abd Majid addressed the defence's contention that there was a gap in the
prosecution case for failing to call a DSP Khairi, who had possession of Sirul's
car keys between Nov 3 and 6, 2006.
He submitted that since the evidence was in favour of the defence, there was no
need to call Khairi to testify. "What do they (counsel) want Khairi to say? We
do not feel there was a need to call him to the stand."
Hearing before judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin continues today.
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