Man charged with murdering Thai girlfriend ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation

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The Magistrate’s Court in Shah Alam has ordered a lorry driver, charged with murdering his Thai girlfriend by pushing the woman off the 23rd floor of a condominium in Setia Alam, to undergo a psychiatric examination at Hospital Bahagia Tanjong Rambutan in Ulu Kinta, Perak.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 The Shah Alam Magistrate's Court has ordered a lorry driver charged with murdering his

00:05 Thai girlfriend by pushing the woman off the 23rd floor of a condominium in Setia Alam

00:11 last February to undergo psychiatric examination at Hospital Bahagiatan, Jongrambutan.

00:18 Magistrate Mohammad Reza Azhar Rezali made the ruling after allowing lawyer Sivah Nantan

00:22 Raghava's application that V. Nathan undergo psychiatric evaluation as the accused is believed

00:29 to be mentally unstable.

00:31 The court also set June 7 to get an update on the accused's psychiatric report.

00:36 Earlier, Sivah Nantan, who made the application under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure

00:42 Code, told the court that it was difficult for him to obtain his client's instructions

00:47 as he was not responsive.

00:49 He said Nathan was involved in a motor vehicle accident in 2018, during which he suffered

00:54 a mild head injury resulting in intracranial bleed and neurocranium.

00:59 The lawyer also produced a medical memo of the accused, issued by Hospital Tengku Ampuan

01:04 Rahimah Klang, to the court.

01:06 Since the matter was not objected to by Deputy Public Prosecutor Nurul Farah Sofea Norazman,

01:13 the magistrate then ordered the accused to undergo psychiatric examination for one month.

01:18 The court ordered the accused to undergo psychiatric examination for one month.

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