COMMENT If the court allows the subpoenas on Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, in Sodomy II to be set aside today, it would be the second time the couple is allowed to disconnect from a case they are linked to inadvertently or otherwise.

In the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case, there were undisputed records of a mobile phone communication Najib had with one of the initially accused, Abdul Razak Baginda ( left ), in which the then deputy prime minister had urged Razak Baginda to stay cool in the teeth of an ongoing police investigation into the Mongolian woman's murder.

The advice was offered just as Najib was going to keep an appointment with the inspector-general of police...