Senior lawyer Karpal Singh, acting on behalf of the family of Aminulrasyid Amzah - the teen shot dead by police last week - will write to the attorney-general, urging him to consider charging the officers involved with murder.

"I will write to the AG to find out from him what his position is and also to urge him - in view of the evidence given by the star witness - that the charge which ought to be framed is one of murder," he said.

NONE " Prima facie , it appears to be a clear case of homicide. If the car landed in a (drain) then it could not have been reversed into police personnel (causing them to fire in self-defence)," he told reporters in Shah Alam this afternoon.

Karpal spent about 10 minutes examining the scene of the incident with the help of 15-year-old Azamuddin Omar, who was in the car driven by the deceased in the early hours of April 26.

Answering the lawyer, the Form Three student said the police had opened fire about 400m away from where the car crashed.

Azamuddin also said both of the rear tyres were shot and that he had climbed out of the passenger window after the car crashed into a wall.

NONE The front tyre was in a drain that is about a metre deep.

The boy was accompanied by a member of his school's Parent-Teacher Association, Monaliza Mokhtar.

Karpal said this will be a test case because it can push the police to reveal the circumstances in which they can discharge a firearm.

"This is in the form of a standing order from the inspector-general of police (IGP). (The details) are classified confidential and cannot be revealed to the public," he explained.

The special eight-member panel established to oversee police investigations will also review the procedures involving the discharge of firearms.

‘Not trial by media’

Karpal also hit out at Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar who said it was unethical of Azamuddin to have made a public statement yesterday, and described this as tantamount to tampering with evidence.

azlan "No one is tampering with evidence, rather (we are) getting evidence for the purpose of investigation. (The witness) had every right to make the public statement as it is in public interest,"” retorted Karpal.

The lawyer further refuted the suggestion that this has become a case of 'trial by media'.

He added that the witness' version of the story must be made known or the public would only hear one side of the story.

"If the IGP (Musa Hassan) can (publicly) defend (the officers who fired the shots), then there is no reason why the star witness can't make a public statement," he said.

In fact, added Karpal, what Musa did was prejudicial to the investigation, as he is a superior to the officers probing the case.

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