IPOH: A senior investigation officer in the case of former Perak state executive councillor Paul Yong Choo Kiong today told the High Court that she believed the politician had raped his Indonesian maid.
Assistant Superintendent Yap Siew Cheng from the district Criminal Investigation Department said this was based on her investigation, which concluded that the accused had raped the victim.
"I do not agree that the victim was not raped, because my investigation showed that the victim was raped by the accused.
"I had carried out investigation and reviewed with the telco (company). Based on it, every information given by the victim, in terms of time and date had tallied," she said in the trial before judge Datuk Abdul Wahab Mohamed.
Yap, who was the 23rd prosecution witness, was replying to a question asked by state deputy public prosecutor director Azalina Rashdi.
Earlier, Yong's lead counsel, Datuk Rajpal Singh suggested to Yap that his client did not rape the victim.
He added that Yap did not conduct the investigation fairly and in detail, to which she disagreed.
"My investigation was completed until there was an instruction to charge (Yong)," she said .
Rajpal said that Yap did not conduct a proper investigation.
He described the probe as "one-sided" as the victim was not referred for mental health assessment despite a complaint made by the accused.
Rajpal said according to Yong's statement, the victim was always singing and sleeping with the lights on.
Yong, he said, also claimed that he always heard "weird sounds".
Yap, however said that she did not refer the victim to a psychiatric specialist as the maid's medical report from Indonesia, prior to her coming to work in Malaysia, showed that her mental status was normal.
Rajpal also said that the victim's medical report from Indonesia was no longer valid in this case as the checkup was done two-and-a-half months before the alleged rape took place.
Rajpal also told the court that at least two unknown mixed DNA, not from semen or blood, were extracted from the crime scene and that they were not that of the victim, Yong or Yong's family members.
When Rajpal questioned Yap on whether she investigated whom the DNA belonged to, she replied in the negative.
Meanwhile, anotger member of the defence team, Salim Bashir, questioned Yap about whether the victim had mentioned in her diary that she was sexually harassed or raped by her former employer.
Yap replied that there was no such thing written in the victim's diary.
She also told Salim that the victim wrote a sentence in her diary a day before the alleged rape incident, in Indonesian which translated to English as "wait and watch out, f***".
The court set Oct 29 for written submission and Nov 16 for oral submission for both parties.
Yong, 51, pleaded not guilty to a charge of raping his Indonesian domestic helper at his house in Meru Desa Park on July 7, 2019 between 8.15pm and 9.15pm.
The Tronoh assemblyman was first charged in the Sessions Court here on Aug 23, 2019, when he was the state Housing, Local Government, Public Transport, Non-Islamic Affairs and New Villages committee chairman.