Teoh Beng Hock tragedy: How to get away with murder
COMMENT | It is official. They have gotten away with it. Whoever the Court of Appeal ruled had caused the death of Teoh Beng Hock got away with it. Mind you, they had gotten away with it for years, but now the Madani state has decreed that there would be no further action in this case.
The state security apparatus had the unmitigated gall to claim that 'several witnesses were unable to be reinterviewed while others refused to come forward'. This coming from the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP), which has had no trouble interviewing witnesses or compelling them to come forward and of course claimed that the family of Beng Hock the victim was uncooperative.
The attorney-general's brief statement, unlike what the courts concluded, that 'the police investigations into Teoh Beng Hock's death did not find sufficient evidence to prove wrongdoing by any individuals', is a rubber stamp on the narratives that the state has been pushing for 15 years and enables cretins to claim that there is no evidence, hence no crime.
As reported in the press, the family's lawyer wondered if this investigation, which by the way in no way reflects the intent of the court, was done merely as a formality or more accurately in the minds of rational citizens a legal legerdemain to make it seem that the RMP was complying with the ruling of the court.
Indeed, by never investigating this crime as a murder...
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