An Update...

Eidul Fitri 2007 (1428H) is just around the corner!

Personally, there is no grand preparation for this year. Things have been hard & challenging for the past months. However by the grace of Allah SWT I have managed to live through it.

Something exciting is coming up in a couple of days but I am unable to put words on it. It is still pending confirmation. Oh it’s just work matters nothing much though it would be exciting.

I’ve been following on the news; still upset that till today the murderer of arwah Nurin Jazlin has yet to be brought to justice. I believe the police are making sure that they would have ample of evidence to convict the suspect once he/she is arrested & brought to Court as the accused. This would be another gruelling ordeal for arwah’s family & to us all.

Imagine if the Court were to find the accused not guilty in the case! It would be a national uproar. Because the public doesn’t really know what it really takes to convict an accused in the court of law, especially in this case where possible eyewitness may not be available. So most probably the prosecution would have to rely heavily on circumstantial evidence supported by medical evidence.

Two days ago the Indonesian lady who had swallowed the sim card purportedly to have contained information vital to the case has been released by the police. This is not really a good news. Of course the police can always re-arrest her in the event that any new evidence resurfaced.

But at least the police have identified 2 possible suspects who are still at large but then again they can only be implicated if the medical testings such as DNA, blood test or finger prints show that they had been in contact with arwah. For now it is hard to tell.

To me it is okay to wait a little bit longer for the police to build up concrete evidence for this case rather than prosecuting a possible suspect based on limited evidence as the repercussion could be disastrous. Case in point would be the recent case of arwah Norita where the accused was acquitted without the defence being called. What this means is the prosecution has no case at all! And this would also means the police have got the wrong guy!! And sadly until today the case remains unsolved as no conviction has been made.

By all means this shouldn’t happen in arwah Nurin’s case. So let us give the police time & space to continue with their investigation in building up the case. I am very sure by now the police have in mind several suspects but to arrest one without concrete evidence would be useless too. Furthermore nowadays cautioned statements per se by the accused would not necessarily implicate the accused in the court of law. Example let say if the accused after being arrested & remanded for investigation, during the remand period admitted to the crime in his cautioned statement to the police, surely his defence counsel would challenge it during the trial.

I say this of course in supposition that the accused would plead not guilty when he/she is brought before the court. Normally the accused would do so in cases of capital punishment. This is of course his right. He shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yes eventhough there is glaring evidence against him. And if he can’t afford it a legal counsel will be provided by the Court to him free of charge.

So, to sum it up the actual legal process has yet to begin. Until then we should allow the police to carry out their duty diligently & to do so we, the public should have full confidence in our police force to carry out their duty.

By now the real culprit could be in hiding & I bet you that as days go by they will be reading all the newspapers & watching TV to know what the police are doing. He/She would want to know whether the police have any new lead on the case. Now if the media keep hounding the police on latest information and if it's given & publish, don’t you think this would assist the culprit to plan an escape plan. So give it a rest & once again let the police do their job!

Insya Allah once the real culprit is brought to justice we would be able to see the evidence the police would have against him/her & let the legal process takes its course.