Altantuya Murder Trial - Day 23 -23 Jul 07

Murder accused Chief Insp Azilah Hadri was not read the rights of an arrested person before he was interrogated, the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial heard today. Chief Insp Koh Fei Cheow revealed this when cross- examined by Azilah's lawyer Kuldeep Kumar, who also grilled Koh on the possibility that the police led Azilah to a recovery of bone fragments. Later, Kuldeep asked Koh about what happened during the journey from the Kuala Lumpur Contingent Headquarters (IPK KL) to the crime scene and the apparent conversation between Azilah and DSP Zainudin Abdul Samad from the Bukit Aman interrogation unit (D6) who accompanied Koh, two other detectives and a driver to the scene. Earlier, Koh said he did not know Zainudin had been assigned to interrogate Azilah and that he only met him when he was leading Azilah from the lock-up to the four-wheel-drive which was to take them to the crime scene.
The court today wanted both the prosecution and the defence in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial to show at which stage a trial-within-a-trial should be held, if it is indeed necessary. Judge Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin said he did not want to hear submissions from the point of law - on Section 26 of the Evidence Act - on why a trial-within-a-trial should be held.
He instead wanted them to submit on at which juncture it should be held as "everyone knows the reason why a trial-within-a-trial is held". He said this after the prosecution contended a trial-within-a-trial should not be held, while the defence reiterated there was a need for it. Deputy Public Prosecutor Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah said any trial-within-a-trial is in respect of admission and confession, not exclusion of evidence adduced
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