Witness doesn't have copy of KJ's 'email' to Joshua, Ruth
SUHAKAM INQUIRY | The fifth witness in the Suhakam public inquiry into the disappearances of Joshua Hilmy and Ruth Hilmy testified that he had only seen the email purportedly sent by Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin to Joshua.
The witness — Selvakumar Peace John Harris who is an engineer in Butterworth, Penang — claimed he had read the email on Joshua’s phone and laptop in May 2016.
SUHAKAM INQUIRY | The fifth witness in the Suhakam public inquiry into the disappearances of Joshua Hilmy and Ruth Hilmy testified that he had only seen the email purportedly sent by Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin to Joshua.
The witness — Selvakumar Peace John Harris who is an engineer in Butterworth, Penang — claimed he had read the email on Joshua’s phone and laptop in May 2016.
“It (the email) is not with me. I have seen the email on Joshua’s laptop and phone when we met in May 2016 at my home (in Butterworth),” to hold the panel at the Suhakam headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.
Asked by Suhakam commissioner Hishamuddin Yunus whether he had kept a copy or a screenshot of the email, Selvakumar said he did not.
Selvakumar is the owner of a house in Kampung Tunku, Petaling Jaya, where Joshua and Hilmy had resided.
Yesterday, he testified that Khairy had sent several emails to Joshua, which among others, told him, “It is better that you leave the country”.
However, Khairy said in a statement yesterday that he never knew Joshua and Ruth (photo), nor Selvakumar, and never wrote such communication to Joshua.
When Hishamuddin questioned Selvakumar about media reports of Khairy’s denial, Selvakumar insisted that the emails he had seen were sent by Khairy.
“I am certain he sent the emails. He didn’t need to deny it,” he said.
He claimed that Khairy’s denial showed he had something to do with the couple’s disappearance.
“It is circumstantial evidence. Although the email is not a strong evidence, it points to that direction (of the disappearance of the couple),” he said.
Apart from Hishamuddin, other members of the panel are Suhakam commissioners Jerald Joseph and Madeline Berma.
Joshua, who hails from Taiping, Perak, had converted from Islam to Christianity after marrying Ruth — an Indonesian national — in 2004.
Ruth’s family said she came to Malaysia 20 years ago to work as a tailor, where she met Joshua.
Not much is known about the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, except that they were last seen on Nov 30, 2016, and were reported missing on March 6, 2017.
The inquiry resumes tomorrow.
