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3.25pm: Moving into Anwar's alibi, Gopal says his client gave notice of the alibi but abandoned it at the trial, and had explained why he did so in his statement from the dock.
"When the prosecution appealed, their petition did not contain the alibi witness," he adds.
The defence lawyer says the prosecution's appeal over the acquittal was mainly on DNA.
He argues that the appellate court went beyond this notion of alibi where the DPP submitted the failure of Anwar to call an alibi witness.
"The notice of alibi was not pursued but it cannot be used against the appellant. The apex court should intervene when there is clear misdirection," he submits.
Gopal says the condominium owner, one Hasanuddin, was subjected to the police to 30 hours of interrogation.
Hasanuddin has two units adjacent to each other at the Desa Damansara condominium, and Anwar's alibi was that he was not in the other unit, where the alleged sodomy incident took place.
3.25pm: Moving into Anwar's alibi, Gopal says his client gave notice of the alibi but abandoned it at the trial, and had explained why he did so in his statement from the dock.
"When the prosecution appealed, their petition did not contain the alibi witness," he adds.
The defence lawyer says the prosecution's appeal over the acquittal was mainly on DNA.
He argues that the appellate court went beyond this notion of alibi where the DPP submitted the failure of Anwar to call an alibi witness.
"The notice of alibi was not pursued but it cannot be used against the appellant. The apex court should intervene when there is clear misdirection," he submits.
Gopal says the condominium owner, one Hasanuddin, was subjected to the police to 30 hours of interrogation.
Hasanuddin has two units adjacent to each other at the Desa Damansara condominium, and Anwar's alibi was that he was not in the other unit, where the alleged sodomy incident took place.
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