PASIR PUTEH – The magistrate’s court here today ordered a labourer who was charged with murdering his eight-month-old son to Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta, in Perak, to determine his mental status.
Magistrate Mohd Dinie Shazwan Ab Shukor made the order following a request by lawyer Muhamad Izwan Ishak, representing Wan Roslan Wan Mustapa, for his client to be sent to the hospital for mental observation.
Izwan also applied to the court to set a date within a month for mention of the case and submission of documents, pending the autopsy and psychiatric reports.
The court then set November 24 for mention.
Earlier, Wan Roslan, 40, nodded after the charge was read out to him, but no plea was recorded as the case comes under the jurisdiction of the high court.
He was charged with murdering Wan Mohamad Afiq Zafwan Wan Roslan in Kg Sg Dua, Repek in Bachok, at 10am on October 13.
The charge carries the death sentence if found guilty.
Wan Roslan was also charged under Section 324 of the Penal Code with voluntarily causing hurt using a broom on his wife, Nor Hanifah Mohamad, 32, at the same place, time and date.
The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Siti Asma'a Che Omar. – Bernama, October 25, 2020
