Will we abandon Sgt. Tharmendran to torture by Air Force / prison guards?

Update: YB Mike organising a memo handover.
DATE : THURSDAY 22.7.10
TIME : 10.30 am
VENUE : MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, KUALA LUMPUR
This truly is a new low.

In yet another dramatic twist in the trial of former RMAF sergeant N Tharmendran, the accused retracted his bail after the PJ Sessions Court refused his application for a protection order from the air force.
Lead defence counsel N Surendran (left) said Tharmendran requested to retract his bail as he feared he would be picked up by RMAF officers who were waiting outside the courtroom.
“This goes to show that anyone who has been tortured before does not want to be tortured again,” Surendran said of his client’s alleged torture by army intelligence officers.

When you think about the state of Malaysian prisons, and the abuse known to go on in there, I think you get an idea of just how scared Tharmendran was.
Rereading his experience, I don’t blame him:

Tharmendran’s father) Nagarajah (left) claimed that two RMAF officers, a Major Azam and a Major Ismail, had beaten and mistreated his son over a period of nearly three weeks from July 2 to 17 last year.
He claimed that Major Ismail made Tharmendran wear a crash helmet, which he then proceeded to hit repeatedly using a golf club and a cricket bat alternatively.
Nagarajah said Major Ismail told his son that he had written the names of all those he had tortured , including Tharmendaran’s on the crash helmet
Nagarajah also claimed that his son was stripped to his underwear in a room where the air-conditioning was going full-blast, and that he was not allowed to sleep, with regular interrogations after midnight.
“All the time, they kept asking him to confess he had stolen the two F5E fighter jet engines from Sg Besi TUDM Base.
“Major Ismail also threatened to shoot my son and (co-accused) Rajandran Prasad,” he said in his report.

Look at what we’re doing.
Tens of millions worth of material is stolen from our airbases, and they blame two enlisted men.
One of them has the crap kicked out of him, and we can’t even offer him the slightest bit of protection as we try and get to the bottom of this story.
The worst part?
I’m not sure Sgt. Tharmendran is safe in prison either :(
I think we really need more attention on this case >:(