SHAH ALAM: The High Court here has set trial dates in October and November for the case of Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, who have been charged with murdering Kim Jong-nam, the estranged brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, on Feb 13.
Judge Datuk Azmi Ariffin fixed Oct 2 to 5; Oct 9 to 12; Oct 24 to 26, followed by Nov 6 to 9; Nov 13 to 16; and Nov 27 to 30 when the case came up for case management.
Azmi ruled that both Siti and Doan can enter their pleas on the first day of trial on Oct 2.
He also allowed the prosecution's application for the women to be jointly tried.
Siti, 25 and Doan, 29, are alleged to have murdered Jong-nam at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) at about 9am on Feb 13, 2017, with four men still at large.
They were charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murdering “Kim Choi”, which was Jong-nam’s alias.
Jong-nam died after being allegedly poisoned by the two women using the VX nerve agent, classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction.
The women are being represented by legal powerhouses Gooi Soon Seng, S. Selvi and Azura Alias (for Siti); and Hisham Teh Poh Teik, Datuk Naran Singh and Slim Bashir (for Doan).
The prosecution is made up of Selangor prosecution director Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad Mohamad Mustaffa, P. Kunyalam, Wan Shaharuddin Wan Ladin, Raja Zaizul Faridah Raja Zaharudin, Mohd Fairuz Johari and Syed Farid Syed Ali.