Najib Abdul Razak’s lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is suffering from a high fever and sore throat, such that he sounded like the late James Bond actor Sean Connery, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur heard this morning.

Thus, Najib’s other lawyer Rahmat Hazlan sought for the former prime minister’s 1MDB audit report trial today to be vacated.

“Shafee has a...