Lawyer: Prosecution did not show evidence clients murdered millionaire and aides


Making an appeal: Former lawyer Pathmanabhan and one of his farm hands leaving the Court of Appeal at yesterday

PUTRAJAYA: There is no evidence to prove that cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and her three aides were murdered and burnt to death in 2010, the Court of Appeal heard.

Lawyer Manjeet Singh Dhillon submitted in the appeal hearing that the prosecution did not provide any evidence – direct or cir­­cum­­stantial – to prove the necessa­ry ingredients of the charge against former lawyer N. Pathmanabhan and his three farm hands under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

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