Manohara never complained of abuse, claims Kelantan Prince's cousin

KOTA BARU: The Syariah High Court here was told on Sunday that Manohara Odelio Pinot was never abused by her husband, the Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra.

Tengku Azwani Tengku Iskandar, 26, said the claims made by Manohara in a newspaper report that she was abused by her husband were not true.

"I was always with Manohara. If there was, she would have complained it to me," she said when questioned by Tengku Muhammad Fakhry's counsel, Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar, in the hearing of the prince's suit which sought Manohara to be loyal to him.

Tengku Azwani, who is the only witness in the case, said her house was only about 10 minutes' walk from that of Tengku Muhammad Fakry's, who is her cousin.

She said she was close to the prince and Manohara and that the couple's relation could be regarded as good and affectionate.

At the hearing, which was presided by judge Mohd Yusof Awang, the court also heard a written affidavit by Tengku Muhammad Fakhry on a suit for Manohara to return RM1,112,250 which she had borrowed from him.

Mohd Yusof fixed Dec 13 for decision.

Manohara was not at the court on Sunday nor was she represented in the court.

Last Friday, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry had filed his affidavit to the Syariah High Court in Kuala Lumpur for validation and to be used as evidence in the hearing of his suits at the court here.

On Nov 3, Syarie lawyers Mohd Faiz Adnan and Roshdan Sujak Rafie announced that they were pulling out from representing Manohara in the two cases and two days after that a judgment in default was made against Manohara and her mother, Daisy Fajarina, in a RM105 million suit filed by the prince at the Kuala Lumpur High Court. - BERNAMA