Ehailing driver lured out of hotel before being killed in Tawau plantation, says prosecution

The defendants being led into the courtroom in Tawau on Tuesday. - Photo: Bernama

TAWAU: The prosecution in the trial of six policemen and a civilian who are charged with killing an ehailing driver will adduce to show that the murder took place on Jan 13 last year (2023), where the deceased was lured out of a hotel in Tawau and ordered to drive with others in a car to an oil palm plantation where he was killed.

The trial of the six policemen and a civilian who are charged with killing the ehailing driver early last year, along with former Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) Head of Intelligence Staff SAC Datuk Mat Zaki Md Zain, who is accused of abetting, started in the High Court here Tuesday (Jan 2).