COMMENT In the Court of Appeal on March 6, lead prosecutor Muhammad Shafee Abdullah made a series of false claims against the judgment given by High Court judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah (“the Judgment”), who freed Anwar Ibrahim on the Sodomy II charge on Jan 9, 2012.

The crux of Shafee’s submission was that Justice Zabidin had mistakenly thought that the individual plastic receptacles containing the DNA samples were tampered with when in fact it was only the plastic bag containing these individual receptacles that was cut  open.  

Shafee further claimed that based on this singular issue, the judge acquitted Anwar on the erroneous ground that the integrity of the DNA samples were compromised...