Four more witnesses testify in Kim Jong-Nam murder trial

SHAH ALAM: Four witnesses involved with obtaining CCTV footage captured at numerous locations at KLIA and klia2 relating to the events and the eventual murder of Kim Jong-Nam testified at the High Court today.
Witnesses including Sama-Sama Hotel security video technician N. Jayakumar, 39; klia2 parking machine and CCTV technician Mohd Amirul Firdaus Ibrahim, 29; Eraman Malaysia CCTV room security officer K. Govulan Raj, 31 and Malaysia Airports Berhad auxiliary policeman Mohd Fauzan Suparman, 31, testified before High Court judge Datuk Azmi Ariffin.
All of them testified to having submitted numerous CCTV recording of the events at both airports before and after the death of the North Korean following requests from lead investigating officer ASP Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz between February and March, last year.
Deputy public prosecutor Syed Farid Syed Ali later told reporters that the witnesses were summoned to explain how they extracted the relevant images from the main computer server and copied them to discs.
This, he said was to enable the court to accept the footage as formal evidence which was one of the strongest points in building their case against the suspects.
While various CCTV recordings were played before the court for the witnesses to verify, one CCTV footage was struck off by the judge following an objection raised by defence counsel Gooi Soon Seng.
The CCTV footage in question was learnt to be a re-enactment footage of the suspects' acts at the Bibik Heritage restaurant in klia2.
Gooi and the rest of the defence team claimed that it was decided during a pre-trial meeting that the footage would not be shown by the prosecution in court.
Azmi took the objection into consideration before barring the prosecution from admitting it as evidence.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 29, along with four others still at large, were charged with the murder of Kim Chol, 45, at the KL International Airport 2 (klia2) departure hall at 9am on Feb 13 this year.
Jong-nam, who travelled with a passport bearing the name of Kim Chol, died while on the way to the Putrajaya Hospital. He arrived in the country on Feb 6.
It was reported that Jong-nam was at klia2 on Feb 13 to board a flight to Macau when two women approached and suddenly wiped his face with toxic liquid which was later identified as the VX nerve agent.
The murder charge under Section 302 of the Penal Code carries the mandatory death sentence upon conviction.