A digital forensic analyst told the High
Court here that he could not identify the face of a four-wheel-drive (4WD)
vehicle driver which passed through the Kota Damansara toll plaza on the
night when Altantuya Shaariibuu was believed murdered.
C/Insp Azilah Hadri and Cpl Sirul Azhar escorted to the High Court. A witness told the court that he was unable to identify if the driver in SUV at the toll plaza was actually the suspect Sirul.
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CyberSecurity Malaysia digital forensic senior analyst Mohd Zabri Aidil
Talib, 28, said the image could not be detected despite using the latest
technology because of the dark surrounding.
“I tried but I still could not see,” he said in the trial for the
Mongolian woman’s murder which entered its 57-day today.
Two policemen from the Special Action Unit — C/Insp Azilah Hadri, 31,
and Cpl Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, — are alleged to have committed the murder
in a jungle in Bukit Raja in October last year.
Political analyst Abdul Razak Abdullah Baginda, 47, is charged with
abetting them.
Mohd Zabri said the image of Sirul’s vehicle was recorded by a CCTV
camera and he confirmed that the tape recording did not have elements of it
having been tempered with.
He said he had analysed a “working” tape that was taken from the
original tape recording and found that it had not been edited. The image
was consistent, he said.
“If there was tempering, I could identify it through the inconsistent
and rough movement of images — where there was a possibility that editing
had been done. Besides, the time stamp recorded in each frame was
consistent,” he said.
He also said that even though the analysis was done using a working
tape and not the original, the result was accurate because nothing had
changed.
During cross-examination, counsel Hazman Ahmad and Ahmad Zaidi Zainal
who represented Azilah and Sirul respectively, Mohd Zabri’s expertise and
capability were questioned because he had never been gazetted to give
evidence in court as an expert.
In reply, Mohd Zabri said CyberSecurity Malaysia also had not been
accredited by any parties and he agreed that because of this, his accuracy
and expertise could be disputed.
In re-examination, he said his evidence had been accepted by the court
in two cases involving CCTV recording and credit cards.
He said signatures of his two superior officers on his analysis report
were only a company procedure and without the signatures, it did not mean
the analysis was not conclusive.
Meanwhile, CyberSecurity Malaysia’s Digital Forensic Department head
Aswami Fadillah Mohd Ariffin, 36, also took the stand as the 52nd
prosecution witness today.
Earlier, west Selangor district surveyor Mohd Fauzi Abdu Hassan, 44,
told the court that the scene of Altantuya’s murder was a private land.
The trial before Justice Datuk Mohd Zaki Md Yasin continues tomorrow.
