PUTRAJAYA: The trial judge’s failure to make a specific finding on Sukma Darmawan Sasmitaat Madja’s confession before using it against him constituted a miscarriage of justice, the Federal Court heard yesterday.
Sukma’s counsel Gobind Singh Deo said that the then High Court judge Justice Arifin Jaka was wrong in using Sukma’s confession to convict him of abetting Anwar to sodomise Anwar’s family driver, Azizan Abu Bakar, at his apartment in Bangsar between January and March 1993.
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