A witness told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today that he had never met the six men whose images were recorded in two hotels two days before deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais was found dead on Sept 16 last year.

Audio video analyst of Royal Malaysian Police Forensic Laboratory, Insp Mior Samsul Abdul Rahman, said he only ‘saw’ them in the footage from the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at the New Town Hotel and Go Hotel in Petaling Jaya.

During cross-examination by counsel V Rajehgopal, Mior Samsul said that the focused images of all the men were taken upon instruction from the investigating officer, ASP Wan Abdullah Wan Said.

When asked how he could recognise and get the focused images of the individuals, the witness said it was through physical characteristics, such as hair, body shape and skin colour, described by the investigating officer.

Mior Samsul, however, agreed with Rajehgopal’s suggestion that he had captured the images of the men randomly based on the instruction and clues from Wan Abdullah.

Rajehgopal: Is this means that prior to Sept 20, before you took the recording, you have met with the people whose images you wanted to focus on? You saw them before?

Mior Samsul: No. I have never seen them before.

Rajehgopal: Who told you to focus on these individuals?

Mior Samsul: ASP Wan Abdullah.

The six men - G Gunasekaran, 48, R Dinishwaran, 24, AK Thinesh Kumar, 23, M Vishwanath, 26, S Nimalan, 23, and S Ravi Chandaran, 45, were jointly charged with murdering Kevin Morais from Jalan Dutamas Raya to Jalan USJ 1/6D between 7am and 8pm on Sept 4 last year.

Army pathologist Col Dr R Kunaseegaran, 53, was also changed with abetting the six men in the murder of the deputy public prosecutor.

The hearing before Judge Datuk Azman Abdullah continues tomorrow.

- Bernama