Altantuya Murder Trial - Day 20 -17 Jul 07

The defence in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial today pounced on stark discrepancies which appeared during a prosecution witness's testimony on Hotel Malaya's closed-circuit television (CCTV) recordings.
Cross-examining the hotel's operations manager Loo Mow Chan, Hasnal Rezua Merican, who is defending murder accused Chief Insp Azilah Hadri, zeroed in on the three video tapes taken by the police from the 50-year-old hotel employee.
Loo had previously testified he handed over the three VHS videotapes to the police on Nov 10 last year and he only saw the tapes again some time in May this year when the police asked him to replay the tapes so they could take photographs. One of the three tapes was replayed in court yesterday morning, using equipment supplied by the police forensics department and this time, the images were clear.
Hasnal Redzua Merican, counsel for the second accused, Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar, said it was bizarre that the video tape with the recording also contained images captured on Nov 11 last year, when the 17th prosecution witness, Jimmy Loo Mow Chan, had testified earlier that he handed over the video tape to a police officer the day before, that is Nov 10 2006. However, in the afternoon session, Loo, 50, Hotel Malaya's operations manager, explained under re-examination by deputy public prosecutor Manoj Kurup that the discrepancy was due to a technical fault.
Manoj: You notice that at the beginning of the tape it is printed 11-11-06 at time 17:04. Can you explain why that recording is on the tape if it had been handed to the police on the Nov 10 2006?

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