BATU GAJAH: There were emotional scenes outside the Magistrate's Court here as a distraught woman confronted her son-in-law charged with murdering his wife.
"Nisya was a good person. I took care of my child for 32 years," a tearful Rozita Radzuan, 56, told the accused, Hairil Anaas Abdullah, 37, as he was being escorted out of the court lockup yesterday.
Rozita was then comforted by family members who brought her away from the court complex.
Earlier, the accused, Hairil was charged with murdering his wife in June.
Hairil only nodded that he understood after the charges were read out by the court interpreter in front of Magistrate Azlin Zeti Zainal Abidin.
No plea was recorded from the accused as the murder case falls under the jurisdiction of the High Court.
According to the charge, Hairil is accused of causing the death of Nisya Syahkila Shaharun, 32, in a hotel room in Batu Gajah, between 7.30am and 2.00pm on June 20.
He is being charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the death penalty or imprisonment of up to 30 to 40 years and a minimum of 12 strokes of the rotan, upon conviction.
The prosecution was led by Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohd Ameerul Nazhif Wan Zulfikri, while the accused was unrepresented.
The court did not offer any bail to the accused and set Aug 9 for case mention and the submission of chemical, autopsy, and DNA reports.
On June 20, it was reported that the man had surrendered to the police after allegedly killing his wife in a hotel room here.
Batu Gajah District Police Chief, Assistant Commissioner Md Noor Aehawan Mohammad, was reported as saying that the suspect was believed to have killed the victim out of dissatisfaction over a fasakh (annulment) claim.
The victim's body was found in the hotel room with stab wounds and a knife.