The Malaysian Insight

DEFENCE counsel Naran Singh in the murder trial of Kim Jong-nam today offered to pay for colour prints of still photographs of closed-circuit television camera footage after being told by the prosecution that it was expensive.

Naran had asked for full colour photographs after being given black and white copies, while the judge and deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad were able to refer to colour photographs.

Shah Alam High Court judge Azmi Ariffin concurred with Naran, saying that the defence should receive the same still images since he (the judge) and the DPP also had them.

In response, the deputy public prosecutor said it was costly to print everything in full colour.

Naran then said the defence was willing to bear the cost for full colour prints.

Today is the first day of the murder trial where the two accused, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, pleaded not guilty to killing Jong-nam with the VX nerve agent by smearing it on the face at the klia2 airport on February 13.

The prosecution has so far called two witnesses to the stand and one more is to testify this afternoon. – October 2, 2017.