‘Police wrong in Aminulrasyid shootout’

Lawyers urges Attorney General to re-open the case and review the court of appeal's decision.
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PETALING JAYA: There is now a glimpse of hope for Norsiah Mohamad to seek justice for her murdered son – 14 year old Aminulrasyid Amzah who was killed in a high speed police chase on April 26 2010.

This latest revelation was obtained on December 12 2013 during the trial of Norizan Salleh v the Malaysian government, where the police were compelled to produce the Inspector General’s Standing Order (IGSO) on the use of firearms.

Norizan Salleh,33, was shot five times by a group of police officers at the middle ring road (MRR2) in a similar car chase back in 2010.

The latest findings from Norsiah’s lawyer showed that the police officers involved during the night of the incident had breached the standing orders as firearms can only be discharged when the lives of police personnel or public is threatened.

Speaking to reporters Lawyer and Member of Parliament, N. Surendran revealed that Corporal Jenain Subi had clearly breached the IGP’s standing order as he fired 21 rounds at Aminulrasyid’s vehicle .

“We are referring to the IGSO produced during the trial of Norizan Salleh who was also shot indiscriminately by police officers. It is now clear that police officers had breached the standing order,”

“A weapon can only be discharged when the lives of police officers are in danger or the public is in danger. But looking at Aminulrasyid’s case, the police were not in danger and Aminulrasyid was merely trying to get away from the police,” he said.

The Padang Serai MP then added that Corporal Jenain had no right or lawful excuse to repeatedly shoot at the vehicle and slammed the court of appeal who justified the police’s action to fire at the car in order to ‘immobolise it’.

“The decision of the court of appeal is a massive blunder and also puts the safety of all Malaysians at risk at the hands of trigger happy cops,”

“It is now clear why the police leadership and Home Ministry had long resisted the call for IGSO to be released,”

In view of the provisions of the IGOS the Keadilan vice president strongly urged the Attorney General to apply for the court of appeal to reveiew their own decision to acquit Corporal Jenain while demanding the police force to re-open the shooting case to re-investigate the full extent of the killing incident.

“The AG have to use his power to review the case and the police have to re-open the case as there is a clear cut evidence of breach of SOP. The case have to be re-investigate and we must not forget that the police also tried to kill Azzamuddin Omar who was with Aminulrasyid in the car,”

Meanwhile, Aminulrasyid’s mother who looked calm throughout the entire press conference expressed disappointment at the judicial system which according to her, has failed to uphold justice for her murdered son.

“It is almost four years now and no one had come forward to apologies to me for what had happened. The court’s ruling is totally unacceptable as it is unfair to my family,”

“I hope with this new information my son’s name can finally be cleared,”

“Najib Razak in his letter to me promised a thorough investigation but until today, it was just a promise. Nothing had been done to clear my son’s name,” she shrugged.

On April 26, Aminulrasyid accompanied by his 15 year old friend Azzamuddin Omar, sneaked out from his house in Section 11 Shah Alam and drove to a nearby restaurant to watch a football match.

On his way back from the restaurant, Aminulrasyid had accidentally hit a motorist and tried to flee from the scene as he was panicked, however a patrol car was alerted and gave chase before Corporal Jenain Subi fired 21 shot at the car killing Aminulrasyid.

The incident occurred at 1.30am just a 100 meters away from Aminulrasyid’s house and subsequently caused a public outcry against police brutality.

Khalid Abu Bakar who was the Selangor CPO during the case was quick to labeled Aminulrasyid as a wanted criminal with various records of robbery.