Conviction, death sentence imposed on six former UPNM students unsafe, federal court told

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The Federal Court was told on Tuesday (Feb 18) that the conviction and the death sentence imposed on six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students for the murder of Navy Cadet Officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain is unsafe and should be set aside.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/k4smp89e   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The federal court was told on Tuesday that the conviction and the death sentence imposed

00:07on six former National Defence University of Malaysia UPNM students for the murder of

00:13Navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain is unsafe and should be set aside.

00:20Lawyer Datuk Hisham Tehpothek, who was representing one of the accused, submitted that on the

00:26evidence adduced against his client, there was no Prima Facie case for an offence under

00:31Section 304, Subsection A of the Penal Code, let alone murder.

00:37He said the High Court was in error to rely on the evidence of the 27th Prosecution witness

00:43who was the owner of the iron.

00:45He said the witness did not say in the evidence that he saw his client iron the deceased.

00:50He also questioned the credibility of the evidence of two witnesses, Ahmad Senabil

00:55Mohamed and Mohamed Shafiq Abdullah, arguing that the High Court did not undertake a maximum

01:01evaluation of their evidence.

01:03Lawyer Amer Hamza Arshad submitted that the prosecution failed to meet the required standard

01:09to secure the conviction of two of his clients for the offence of murder.

01:14He said the evidence of the 19th Defence witness regarding the degree of probability of death

01:19from severe burn injuries or alternative causes of death had raised a reasonable doubt

01:24against the prosecution's case.

01:27Lawyer Datuk Mohamed Zamri Mohamed Idris said the deceased could have succumbed to the Steven

01:32Johnson syndrome where the death was the result of an antibiotic prescribed by a doctor.

01:38The trial will resume on February 28.

01:41In July last year, the Court of Appeal imposed the death penalty on the six accused for the

01:46murder of Zulfarhan, after allowing the prosecution's cross-appeal to reinstate their initial murder

01:53charge.

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