Police are alleged to have been harassing the bodyguard of PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail over his statement that he may have been pierced with a poisoned needle during a ceramah last week.

According to Penang Deputy Chief Minister I Mansor Othman,  bodyguard Fayyadh Afiq Albakry Jaafar Sidek, 26, discharged himself from the Seberang Jaya Hospital and checked into another hospital to avoid the “harassment”.

However, Mansor, who is also Penang PKR chief, did not disclose where Fayyadh is now hospitalised.

When asked why Fayyadh moved to another hospital, Mansor replied that “he had been disturbed by police officers”.

“The police kept asking him this and that (about his case) while he was still not feeling well,” Mansor said after a ceramah in Seberang Jaya last night.

‘Wait for victim to get well’

Asked why Fayyadh shouldn't be giving police his full cooperation, Mansor said it was not wrong to take a statement from him, but the police officers should wait until Fayyadh was fit to answer their questions.

NONE Last Saturday, the bodyguard claimed that his left hand was hurt after being pierced with a sharp object while accompanying Wan Azizah to speak at a ceramah in Galeri Pejuang.

Penang police chief Ayub Yaakob told the media that the force had formed a special team to investigate the case, and to determine the cause and injury suffered by the victim.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that Fayyadh discharged himself from the Seberang Jaya hospital at 1.40am on Monday.

Criminal Investigation Department head SAC Zahruddin Abdullah said Fayyadh discharged himself so as to get specialist treatment in another hospital.

“Further tests on the blood and urine samples of the victim were carried out at the Chemistry Department and they were found to be free from any drug or poison,” Zahruddin said in a statement.

“Prior to this, a similar test had been done at the Penang General Hospital and the results also showed that the samples were free from any drug or poison,” he added.