UPDATED @ 05:46:14 PM 09-08-2010
August 09, 2010
SHAH ALAM, Aug 9 – The family of Teoh Beng Hock refused to be drawn into speculation that a suicide note was the “new evidence” which the prosecution wanted raised during the inquest into the political aide’s death today.
“Ask our lawyer and the Attorney-General,” said Teoh’s sister Lee Lan.
She said any new evidence should have been raised by the prosecution at the start of the inquest.
“This should have been brought up one year ago, not today. This is an abuse of process,” she said.
Lee Lan was speaking after she and her family met DAP’s parliamentary adviser Lim Kit Siang.
The Ipoh Timur MP said the public just wants to know if he was “pushed to his death”.
“Any distractions undermines public confidence in the inquest,” said Lim.
He said the inquest should not disappoint the people and the truth should come out.
Lim added that he was not in the position to say if the new evidence was really a suicide note.
“I have not seen it, so I don’t know,” he said.
Rumours about the existence of a Teoh’s suicide note in Chinese has been raised by Senator Ezam Mohd Noh and has been circulating on the internet.
However, Teoh’s former boss Ean Yong Hian Wah today dismissed the speculation.
“I knew him and there was no reason for him to kill himself,” said the Selangor executive councillor.
Ean, who is also Selangor DAP chairman, also pointed out that his political aid was going to get married the very day his body was found.
“He was happy and I heard him speaking to his mother and fiancee.”
Counsel for Teoh’s family Gobind Singh Deo today accused the Attorney-General’s Chambers of withholding evidence which may have “changed the course of the Teoh Beng Hock inquest”.
“Ask our lawyer and the Attorney-General,” said Teoh’s sister Lee Lan.
She said any new evidence should have been raised by the prosecution at the start of the inquest.
“This should have been brought up one year ago, not today. This is an abuse of process,” she said.
Lee Lan was speaking after she and her family met DAP’s parliamentary adviser Lim Kit Siang.
The Ipoh Timur MP said the public just wants to know if he was “pushed to his death”.
“Any distractions undermines public confidence in the inquest,” said Lim.
He said the inquest should not disappoint the people and the truth should come out.
Lim added that he was not in the position to say if the new evidence was really a suicide note.
“I have not seen it, so I don’t know,” he said.
Rumours about the existence of a Teoh’s suicide note in Chinese has been raised by Senator Ezam Mohd Noh and has been circulating on the internet.
However, Teoh’s former boss Ean Yong Hian Wah today dismissed the speculation.
“I knew him and there was no reason for him to kill himself,” said the Selangor executive councillor.
Ean, who is also Selangor DAP chairman, also pointed out that his political aid was going to get married the very day his body was found.
“He was happy and I heard him speaking to his mother and fiancee.”
Counsel for Teoh’s family Gobind Singh Deo today accused the Attorney-General’s Chambers of withholding evidence which may have “changed the course of the Teoh Beng Hock inquest”.
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