Factory worker identifies gunman


GEORGE TOWN: A factory worker told a High Court that bodyguard Ja’afar Halid was the man who shot him near the Penang Bridge intersection of the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway two years ago.

Lee Hong Boon, 58, pointed to Ja’afar, who was clad in a black shirt seated in the dock, before telling the court that Ja’afar was the man who shot him on his left shoulder.

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