Blogger Papagomo or Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris has been ordered by the Court of Appeal to pay damages of RM800,000 to Anwar Ibrahim.

The appellate court today dismissed his appeal against the quantum and decision by the Kuala Lumpur High Court which found him to have committed libel.

Justice Rohana Yusof, who led the three member bench, said the High Court had made a finding of fact that Papagomo and Wan Muhammad Azri is the same person through the evidence of a fellow blogger.

"Hence, the court found there is no error in facts with her decision. With this, the bench also noticed that the memorandum of appeal of Wan Muhammad Azri did not state he is appealing on the quantum.

"Hence, we find there is no reasonable grounds to disturb the High Court's judge on the quantum. With this, the court dismisses both appeals (on the decision and quantum)," she said.

Sitting with Justice Rohana are Court of Appeal judges Hamid Sultan Abu Backer and Justice Varghese George Varghese.

In addition, Wan Muhammad Azri, who appeared on his own without a lawyer, had been ordered by the court to pay RM10,000 costs to Anwar.

It was previously reported two years ago that the HIgh Court found Papagomo had maliciously defamed Anwar and was ordered to pay the quantum.

Wan Muhammad Azri had put up lewd images of Anwar with another man just before the 13th general election; subsequently, the PKR de facto leader had filed a suit for RM100 million.

Wan Muhammad Azri, who was representing himself today, submitted that it is not proven that he was indeed the notorious blogger Papagomo as there is no proof he was the author, owned the internet service protocol and the website.

“There is no evidence before the High Court that I run the website, had uploaded it and owned it,” he said, adding that the court relied solely on the evidence of a fellow blogger.

“I also want to appeal over the quantum as I felt it is too much,” he said.

Anwar's lawyer Latheefa Koya, who appeared with Shahid Adli Kamaruddin, said the High Court did not solely rely on the evidence of the blogger as there is evidence that Wan Muhammad Azri received the notice of demand at his house address.

The notice, Latheefa said, was also posted on the Papagomo website hours before the request for him to apologise expired.

“This shows that he runs and owns the website. Furthermore, there is a bundle of documents which was submitted in court during trial and it was never disputed by the appellant (Wan Muhammad Azri).”

She also told the court that as there is no appeal on the quantum in the memorandum of appeal that was filed by the appellant, the court should not consider reducing the amount.

After a short break, Justice Rohana delivered the unanimous decision.