The judge in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial today said there will be no voir dire (trial-within-a-trial) until further verification is made at to the crime scene and the human remains found there last October.

Shah Alam High Court Judge Mohd Zaki Md Yasin decided that he would record all testimony tendered by a prosecution witness, Chief Inspector Koh Fei Cheow, 38, before ruling if it is inadmissable.

"I will suspend the weight of the evidence subject to other evidence adduced by the prosecution. If it is not proven, then there will be no trial-within-a-trial," he said.

Last Thursday, counsel Hazman Ahmad had sought to exclude Koh's statement that Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri - one of the two police officers charged - had pointed the police to the crime scene on Nov 6 last year and that human remains found there belong to a Mongolian woman.

He had asked the court to do so via a trial-within-a trial as it was unfair to his client, Azilah.

However, Mohd Zaki said if any future evidence proves that Puncak Alam was not the site of the murder or if the bone fragments do not belong to a Mongolian woman, then Koh's evidence would be expunged.

"When we reach that stage, you may apply to exclude the evidence," he told Hazman.

The prosecution is seeking to show that Altantuya, a Mongolian national, was shot before her body was blown to pieces with explosives at a secondary forest in Puncak Alam, near Shah Alam, last October.

Photographs identified

This morning, Koh spent an hour going through photos of the crime scene, shown by Deputy Public Prosecutor Tun Majid Tun Hamzah.

He identified the two spots where Altantuya was believed to have been shot and where she was allegedly blown up.

Koh told the court that it is his practice to type out his investigation findings from his diary

"I use a note book or a piece of paper during the day to jot down notes pertaining to my investigation but I type them out on my computer at night after completing my work," he said.

After returning to Kuala Lumpur Contingent headquarters from the crime scene, Koh said he had placed Azilah in a lock-up which took "one to two minutes to do".

"Then I filed a police report about finding human bone fragments and cordoning off the area in Puncak Alam," he told the court.

Koh was cross-examined by Azilah's other counsel J Kuldeep Kumar before the court adjourned for lunch

The hearing resumed shortly after 2pm.

Azilah, 31, and corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, are charged with killing Altantuya between 10pm on Oct 19 and 1am on Oct 20 last year.

Political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, 47, is charged with abetting them. All three face the death penalty if convicted.