'Detention centre' trial begins


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 29 May 2003

KOTA KINABALU: The trial of two General Operations Force policemen accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, an incident that sparked off a diplomatic tiff between Manila and Kuala Lumpur, began at the Sessions Court here yesterday. 

Her blind and wheelchair-bound father was called as the first witness. The 74-year-old man said that his daughter told him that she had been raped only when they were reunited at a welfare home following her return to Sabah from the Philippines, where she had been deported. 

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