He failed to cast doubt on sodomy charge, say Appeal judges


PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has sentenced Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to five years’ jail because his defence was merely a bare denial.

The three-man panel, chaired by Justice Balia Yusof Wahi, ruled that Anwar had merely given a denial in a statement from the dock against a charge of sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008.

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