Lance Corporal Rohaniza Roshan gave a testimony in court on 30th June in which the lead prosecutor says is flawed.
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The prosecution’s case against political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda and two policemen accused of murder stumbled
unexpectedly yesterday when the lead prosecutor disputed the evidence of one of his key witnesses.
Mr Tun Majid Tun Hamzah told the court that serious discrepancies had been found between the testimony of Lance
Corporal Rohaniza Roslan, 29 – who is testifying against her policeman former boyfriend – and a statement she gave police last November.
A police report has been lodged against Lance Cpl Rohaniza. Mr Tun Majid said there were at least four discrepancies
between her testimony and what she had told police earlier.
He also said the prosecution plans to start impeachment proceedings in an attempt to convince the court the
evidence is unreliable and should be thrown out. If the court agrees that her testimony is unreliable, it can choose to throw out all or part of her evidence.
In her evidence yesterday, Lance Cpl Rohaniza said she had gone with Azilah to fetch Ms Altantuya from outside Abdul Razak’s house on Oct 19.
She said they then took the Mongolian woman to the federal police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, accompanied by a friend of Azilah’s who was driving a separate car.
When they arrived near the police barracks, she said Azilah’s friend pulled over, and Ms Altantuya was taken to his car.
She told the court that Azilah then went to his office in the police barracks,while she left to meet friends at a karaoke centre. She never saw Ms Altantuya again.
But Lance Cpl Rohaniza said she saw her boyfriend later that evening, when she returned to the police headquarters to pick him up to take him to Putrajaya.
She told the court that a few days later, when she accompanied him to his family home in Selangor, she "noticed that he was behaving strangely".
"He was unusually quiet," she said.
After that, she checked with two police stations in Kuala Lumpur to find out if there had been any cases of foreigners being kidnapped or raped, but was told there were none.
