| The defence, however, objects on grounds that they were not given a copy of the hard disks nor the notes that a witness had...
The Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial today heard testimony from an engineer who maintains the equipment for DNA sample analysis used by the Chemistry Department.
Yesterday, another chemist Nor Aidora Saedon testified that she found the DNA belonging to a "Male Y" from a towel, a mineral water bottle mouth and its cap along with a white toothbrush.
azlanDNA and semen from "Male Y" was found in the low rectal area of Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
Although Nor Aidora did not reveal the identity of "Male Y" or where the samples were obtained, she testified receiving them from the investigating officer DSP Jude Blacious Pereira on the evening of July 17, 2008.
Nor Aidora will be cross-examined tomorrow by the defence in a bid to give them more time to study the electropherogram graph and DNA findings.
LIVE REPORTS
8.43am: Anwar arrives with wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and defence counsels Sankara Nair and Param Cumaraswamy.
The prosecution is led by solicitor-general II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden.
8.48am: Tumpat MP Kamaruddin Jaafar, from PAS, also arrives and is seated next to Wan Azizah.
NONE9.10am: Judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah (left) has entered the courtroom and hearing resumes.
9.12am: An engineer, Alan Tiang, is called to the witness stand.
9.16am: The witness says his company, ATP Service and Technology Sdn Bhd, maintains genetic analysers, sequence detection systems and thermocyclers.
He said maintenance was done annually and he had checked the machines used be the chemistry department on May 2008.
"It was working well," he said, during cros-examination by Sankara.
9.22am: PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution is spotted in the public gallery.
Tiang said he has a diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of London's City and Guild Institute.
He said that since 1996, he has worked with a company called Applied Biosystem which supplies the DNA analysis machine.
However, he said Applied Biosystem had ceased operations in Malaysia, 2005. He still maintains the equipments, in terms of hardware.
9.36am: Solicitor-general Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden said the next witness are people involved with the CCTV footage and are on their way to the court. So he asks for a short break. Court stands down.
10.45am: Hearing resumes with ASP Fauziah Che Mat, 47, on the dock. She is audio video specialist from the Cheras police station.
Previously, Fauziah had been with the Photo and Technical division in Bukit Aman federal police headquarters.
DPP Mohd Hanafiah Zakaria is questioning during examination in chief.
10.53am: As an audio/video analyst, Fauziah said she has handled over 900 cases.
anwar ibrahim saiful bukhari sodomy allegation desa damansara 300608 05She said that she received two envelopes from investigating officer DSP Jude Blacious Pereira at 10am on July 3, 2008.
She opened the envelope and found a hard disk marked HD1. Another envelope also contains a hard disk.
11.10am: The defence team objects because they were not given a copy of the hard disks nor the notes Fauziah was referring to.
11.15am: After both parties entered the judges chambers for a short while.
11.25am: Hearing resumes.
11.39am: Fauziah said she made a copy of the hard disk with a cloning machine.
11.47am: After cloning the hard disk she returned the original to DSP Jude Pereira on Sept 24, 2008.
anwar ibrahim saiful bukhari sodomy allegation desa damansara 300608 0311.55am: Hard disk is tendered as exhibit.
12.09pm: Fauziah says her task was to identify by means of the CCTV recording several cars - a Range Rover (with license plate) WMK 6 and a Fiat (WPK 5925) - and the personnel who had driven into and out of the Desa Damansara condominium.
She was asked to observe this on the dates June 26, 2008, and April and early May. Fauziah said she was directed to do so by Jude.
12.16pm: Court adjourns to 2.30pm to allow the set-up of equipment to show the recording.
2.43pm: Trial resumes after the lunch break.
2.50pm: Court adjourns for 30 minutes as equipment to show CCTV is still being set up.
3.25pm: Trial continues with the screening of the CCTV recording which depicts the entrance of condominium and lift on the morning of June 26, 2008.
3.53pm: Two big screen television sets are placed in front of the courtroom. Anwar is allowed to sit with the defence counsels.
One television is screening video recordings from the condominium entrance while another is used to screen the video obtained from the lift.
4.47pm: The CCTV recording shows Saiful arriving at 2.42pm and leaving at 4.35pm. He came in car with the registration plate WPK5925.
4.52pm: Prints from the CCTV footages tendered as evidence. Other than Anwar and Saiful, no other individual were identified.
5pm: The examination-in-chief for Fauziah ends. Court adjourns until tomorrow in which cross-examination of chemistry department DNA paternity unit chief Nor Aidora Saedon. |
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