A special action squad (UTK) member told the High Court here today that he did not see a pair of slippers in Sirul Azhar Umar's jeep.
Abdul Razak Baginda (above) had recently undergone an eye operation, which resulted in the trial being postponed for a few days. |
Sgt Rosli Ibrahim, 36, attached to the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters, said he had the key to the jeep and had switched on the engine twice before the key was handed over to a police officer investigating the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.
"From the first time I had the engine running until I handed over the key to investigation officer ASP Tonny Lunggan, the slippers never existed," he said when cross examined by lawyer Ahmad Zaidi Zainal, who represented Sirul.
He also told the court that the inside of the car was different before he handed over the key and several pictures shown to him in court, namely a mineral water bottle by a side of the backseat, the backseat's position and strewn newspapers.
Sirul is the second accused in the murder trial. On the first day of trial on July 18, Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah said the prosecution would prove a pair of slippers with traces of Altantuya's blood was found in Sirul's car.
Rosli is the 24th prosecution witness in the trial which entered its 38th day today.
"Before this, I had driven Sirul's car and the backseat then was full but this time, I saw there was only one seat at the back, that was why I looked at it more closely," he said.
He also said that after work he did not bring home the key but had left it there.
Earlier, Rosli said he had been told to heat up Sirul's car engine when his friend was on assignment in Pakistan.
"The first time I heated up the engine I do not remember. The second was on the third, the day I handed over the key to DSP Mohd Khairi Khairuddin," he said.
Asked by Tun Abdul Majid during examination-in-chief why he handed over the key to Mohd Khairi, Rosli said: "I handed it over because Mohd Khairi asked for it and I do not know why."
Tun Abdul Majid: "After you handed over to Mohd Khairi, what happened?"
Rosli: "Mohd Khairi gave it back to me on the sixth, in the afternoon."
Tun Abdul Majid: "When the key was given back to you?"
Rosli: "I put the key back in a tray on my desk. Mohd Khairi told me if that night an investigating officer came, he asked me to hand it over to the investigating officer."
Tun Abdul Majid: "On that night, did the investigating officer come?"
Rosli: "Yes. ASP Tonny Lunggan. At about 11pm."
The witness admitted that he only started the engine and did not drive it except to a canteen for a drink and the engine was kept on for half an hour.
Asked if he had touched anything in the jeep, Rosli who was calm throughout, said: "Only looked at the inside and play with the gear."
In re-examination, he said that he did not look thoroughly but he was sure that there was no slippers at the back of the jeep like the one shown in the pictures.
He also said he did not know whose slippers was it.
Sirul, 36, and another UTK member, C/Insp Azilah Hadri, 31, are jointly charged with murdering Altantuya, 28, in Mukim Bukit Raja here in October last year.
Political analyst Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda, 47, is alleged to have abetted the policemen in committing the murder.
The trial before Justice Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yassin continues tomorrow.
