Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Homicide

Legal area

Court

9 Oct 2025

1. ) KHALID REDZA BIN SHUIB 2. ) NURSHAFWANI BINTI KHALID REDZA

Citation

NA-45B-4-06/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

NA-45B-4-06/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The court accepted the accused's guilty pleas to reduced offences under section 304(a) but afforded limited mitigation because the pleas followed written representations resulting in charge reductions; given the aggravating factors (abuse of vulnerable victims, concealment of bodies), the need to protect public interest and absence of transactional nexus between the two offences, the appropriate sentences are 15 years for Case No.7 and 17 years for Case No.4, to run consecutively.
1 Jun 2023

1. ) PERASANTHA A/L RAVI 2. ) THAYALAN A/L BASKARAN

Citation

BA-45B-22-07/2020 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-45B-22-07/2020 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The prosecution failed to prove a prima facie case for murder under s.302/s.300(c) because mens rea (intention to cause injury sufficient in ordinary course to cause death) could not be reasonably inferred from the evidence; medical evidence established fatal blunt head trauma but causation and identity of the specific actors and force were not conclusively attributable to the defendants alone. However the prosecution presented sufficient direct and circumstantial evidence to establish a prima facie case for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under s.304(a), and the court therefore ame…
14 Aug 2019

ANUAR BIN MOHAMAD

Citation

B-05(M)-339-07/2018 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
Court

M
Case number

B-05(M)-339-07/2018 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

The Court upheld the conviction because eyewitness identifications by SP5 and SP6 were credible and consistent with CCTV such that the conviction was safe despite the trial judge's erroneous reliance on co-accused admissions; the prosecution did not suppress evidence and therefore s114(g) did not apply.
26 Apr 2018

1. ) Cheah Chong Tatt 2. ) Mohd Hafizuddin bin Zainal Abidin

Citation

A-05(M)-3-01/2017 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
Court

M
Case number

A-05(M)-3-01/2017 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

The Court held the totality of evidence (CCTV footage showing struggle, shooter and removal of money, SMS messages evidencing planning and intent, witness identifications, issuance and recovery of a serviceable revolver with spent casings consistent with wounds, post-mortem confirming close-range gunshot death, and recovery of significant amounts from appellants plus flight to Thailand) formed a complete chain of circumstantial evidence irresistibly pointing to the appellants' guilt; the defences failed to raise reasonable doubt and convictions under s.3 (Perayu Kedua) and s.3A (Perayu Pertam…

Malaysia Case Law

1. ) KHALID REDZA BIN SHUIB 2. ) NURSHAFWANI BINTI KHALID REDZA

1. ) PERASANTHA A/L RAVI 2. ) THAYALAN A/L BASKARAN

ANUAR BIN MOHAMAD

1. ) Cheah Chong Tatt 2. ) Mohd Hafizuddin bin Zainal Abidin