KOTA KINABALU: The body of an intruder shot dead by a team leader of the Royal Armoured Corps, Fourth Regiment on March 6 was found burnt 14 days later in Kampung Tanjung Batu, Lahad Datu, the High Court here heard yesterday.
Major Mohd Nasir Aziz said the body was found in a burnt down house, from where he saw the intruder shooting in his direction on March 6.
However, no weapon was found on the body, he said.
“The house was burnt down. So, I don’t know what happened to his weapon,” he said in response to counsel Datuk N. Sivananthan during cross examination.
Sivananthan: Shouldn’t a weapon have been found with the body?
Mohd Nasir: I’m not sure.
Sivananthan: Do you agree with me that what you saw (on March 6 last year) was a man holding something that looked like a weapon?
Mohd Nasir: I disagree.
According to the army officer, he did not extract the body from the house, but was in the area when VAT69 Commando Superintendent Abdul Rani Alias went to collect the body.
“The body was brought in a three-tonne truck. I was seated in the front seat,” he said.
Thirty accused comprising 27 Filipinos and three local residents are on trial, with some facing multiple charges of being members of a terrorist group or waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, recruiting members for a terrorist group or willfully harbouring individuals they knew to be members of a terrorist group.
They allegedly committed the offences between Feb 12 and April 10 last year.
The hearing before Justice Stephen Chung at the Sabah Prisons Department continues today. — Bernama