Former footballer, two others claim trial in theft case

The accused, Mohd Azinee Taib, 33, (right) and Muhamad Hairul Hafiz Muzaren, 24 (left) arriving at the Magistrate Court in Pontian to be charge for breaking into a house in Benut, early this month.

PONTIAN: A former football player and two other men pleaded not guilty at the Magistrate Court here for possessing stolen items and breaking into a house in Benut early this month.

The accused, Mohd Azinee Taib, 33, Muhamad Hairul Hafiz Muzaren, 24, and Khairul Akmal Zainol Abidin, 31, made the plea after the charges were read to them by the court interpreter in front of Magistrate Nur Azzuin Abdul Moati on Sunday (July 30).