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THE lawyer for Fong Quay Sim, jailed a year for lacing her husband's tea and food with arsenic, said that the investigating officer in the case was a 'rogue cop' who lied during the trial. Sheik Faisal Shaik Abdul Kader Ali, 34, is now facing 14 charges of illegally accessing the police force's computer system. This abuse of his position as a police officer indicates he cannot be trusted, said defence counsel Wendell Wong.
During Fong's appeal hearing in the High Court on Monday, the lawyer said that the station inspector was fully capable of forcing Fong, 69, to confess to a crime she did not commit and lying about it.
At the trial in the lower court in November 2009, she had made similar allegations but Community Court Judge Ng Peng Hong found Sheik Faisal to be a credible witness, who had no reason to lie. But the cop was under pressure from superiors to close the case, said Mr Wong.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) G Kannan said coercion was unlikely as Fong had provided not one but three confessions - two on Nov 29, 2008 and the third on Feb 10, 2009. Refuting Mr Wong's arguments that the officer's total credibility has been called into question by the 14 charges, DPP Kannan said the alleged offences had occurred within 12 minutes in a single day in November 2009. 'This should not be allowed to taint all of his work as a police officer,' the prosecutor added.
Justice Choo Han Teck will deliver his decision on Wednesday.
