Court affirms Hanif’s acquittal in Noritta case


PUTRAJAYA: Engineer Hanif Basree Abdul Rahman is finally a free man after the Federal Court unanimously dismissed the prosecution’s appeal against his acquittal for a charge of murdering 22-year-old Noritta Samsudin five years ago.

In affirming Hanif’s acquittal, Court of Appeal president Justice Zaki Tun Azmi said he found that the trial judge as well as the Court of Appeal had correctly examined the evidence and correctly applied the principles when assessing the circumstantial evidence.

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