IPOH – The investigating officer in the case of Paul Yong, who is charged with raping his maid, told the high court here today that investigations indicated the victim had been raped by the Tronoh assemblyman.
Yap Siew Cheng, who is attached to the Ipoh district police headquarters, said she conducted a complete investigation from various angles.
“I investigated and cross-checked all the information provided by the victim with telcos and the Indonesian embassy, and found all the information matched,” she said during re-examination by Perak prosecution director Azlina Rasdi before judge Datuk Abdul Wahab Mohamed.
Earlier during cross-examination by lawyer Datuk Rajpal Singh, representing Yong, the 23rd prosecution witness disagreed with the lawyer’s suggestion that the accused did not rape the victim, but had instead made up the accusation as she wanted to stop working as a maid and return to Indonesia.
However, Yap agreed with Rajpal’s suggestion that there were two unknown traces of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mixture on some of the exhibits that were not from the accused or his family.
She told the court she did not conduct an investigation to find out who they belonged to.
Yap also said that there was a “wait and see” note in the victim’s diary on July 6, 2019, a day before the alleged rape.
She said she had read the victim’s medical examination report from Indonesia dated April 8, 2019, before starting work at the accused’s house in May the same year and agreed with the lawyer’s suggestion that there was no specific medical report to confirm the victim’s mental condition at the time of the incident.
Azlina led the prosecution team, comprising deputy public prosecutors Liyana Zawani Mohd Radzi and Mohd Fitri Sadarudin.
Yong, 51, had pleaded not guilty to a charge of raping his maid at his residence in Meru Desa Park here between 8.15pm and 9.15pm on July 7, 2019.
The case was earlier mentioned in the sessions court but, on December 15, last year, the Federal Court allowed the defence’s application to transfer the case to the high court for trial.
Yong was first charged in the sessions court here on August 23, 2019, when he was Perak housing, local government, public transport, non-Muslim affairs and new villages committee chairman. – Bernama, September 28, 2021
