Premier Najib Abdul Razak and his wife told lawyers representing the
opposition leader and also defendant Anwar Ibrahim that they do not want
to be defence witnesses.
This was revealed by lead counsel Karpal Singh and also by Sankara Nair who along with senior lawyer Param Cumaraswamy and Ram Karpal, were in the same room when the witnesses were brought in, one by one.
This was revealed by lead counsel Karpal Singh and also by Sankara Nair who along with senior lawyer Param Cumaraswamy and Ram Karpal, were in the same room when the witnesses were brought in, one by one.
When the defence team arrived at the court complex, Najib and Rosmah were already there.
When the defence team asked Najib who came in first, he said, “I do not wish to be a
defence witness. I do not want to be interviewed.”
After Najib, Rosmah came in and made the same statement, followed by former Malacca police chief Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof.
All the three of them were in the room and they did not come with their lawyers.
Najib and Rosmah arrived about 2.55pm and left at 3.28pm with their aides standing outside while they attended the brief interview.
Karpal said normally, they would give the defence advance notice but there had been no indication that Najib and Rosmah would turn up today. Therefore, they were caught by surprise.
Karpal described Rosmah as very tense when asked questions and at at one point, she said, “do not bully me, Mr Karpal” and said he did not know why Najib and Rosmah were frightened to come to court, in describing their refusal to answer questions.
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