It never crossed his mind that two decades of friendship with Rompin MP Jamaluddin Jarjis would end at the door of a helicopter last Saturday.

"I was with him for 23 years, I knew him for a long time and we were close. He was my friend.

"The last moment I was with him, I touched his knee and shook his hand," Bukit Ibam assemblyperson, Wan Kadri Wan Mahussin.