Defence lawyer says the trial judge relied ‘wholesale’ on hearsay evidence when ruling that the prosecution had proved a prima facie case against Najib Razak.
00:00We feel extremely disappointed. My client feel extremely disappointed because we have put up arguments that we thought would minimum require a serious consideration, that's number one.
00:20Number two, we feel that a lot of the evidence that has been considered by the judge are hearsay. This is probably one of the rare or if not the only case where hearsay evidence is taken wholesale.
00:39Everything that was said was taken wholesale. Now without going into very much detail, we are going to prepare for the defence. We will have to take the judgement and respect the judgement.
00:54But I'm just so surprised that this is probably the only case that I've ever had where at this stage I don't even win on a single point, not a shred of cotton that I won. Forget about the clothes, not even a shred of cotton I won in this particular holding.
01:19But we are not giving up. We are going to fight this case and we are more determined because of the decision today.