13 Mar 2024
NORAIZUWAN BIN HAMALI
- Citation
- R-05(M)-49-01/2022 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
- Court
- M
- Case number
- R-05(M)-49-01/2022 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
The Court upheld the trial judge's factual findings because the totality of circumstantial evidence — the pathologist's finding of non-accidental blunt abdominal trauma causing death, proof that appellant was the last person with the victim, appellant's inconsistent and false explanations amounting to corroboration, and absence of any plausible alternative explanation — led to only one irresistible conclusion: the appellant committed the murder. The conviction under s.302 was therefore safe; however sentence was varied under Act 846 to 35 years' imprisonment (from date of arrest) and 12 strok…