KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has fixed Jan 20 for hearing of the prosecution’s application to have a joint trial for all nine charges involving five family members linked to the attack on the Ulu Tiram police station in Johor.
Justice Muhammad Jamil Hussin set the date during case mention here yesterday.
Earlier, Deputy Public Prosecutor Yazid Mustaqim Roslan told the court that all nine charges faced by the five accused should be tried together as the cases were related.
Lawyer Faizal Rahman, who represented the family, said the defence was undecided on whether to object to the application.
However, he said that the defence would be filing an affidavit in reply after all the documents were handed over.
On Sept 24, the case was transferred to the Kuala Lumpur High Court from the Sessions Court in Johor.
The five individuals are the assailant’s father, Radin Imran Radin Mohd Yassin, 62; his mother, Rosna Jantan, 59; and three siblings: Radin Romyullah Radin Imran, 34; Farhah Sobrina Radin Imran, 23; and Mariah Radin Imran, 19.
On June 19, they were charged at the Sessions Court with nine separate offences, including promoting acts of terrorism by instilling the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
On May 17, two constables, Ahmad Azza Fahmi Azhar, 22, and Muhamad Syafiq Ahmad Said, 24, were killed in an attack on the police station carried out by a man, while Cpl Mohd Hasif Roslan, 38, was injured by gunfire.
The assailant was shot dead during the incident.
