A teacher at the centre of a lawsuit for his prolonged absence from class had made a tearful apology years after the incident, the Kota Kinabalu High Court was told.

The SMK Taun Gusi teacher Mohd Jainal Jamran also disavowed his role in a plot to falsify documents regarding his attendance in school, according to the plaintiff’s witness Nurhaizah Ejab.

According to Nurhaizah...