Bella case: Siti Bainun re-appoints lawyer for defence trial


KUALA LUMPUR: Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun Ahd Razali has re-appointed one of the five lawyers who withdrew from representing her to handle her defence proceedings on charges of neglecting and abusing a teenage girl with Down syndrome known as Bella.

Siti Bainun, 31, told the court that she had appointed Mohammad Farhan Maaruf to represent her in the defence trial.

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