Homeless man charged with friend's murder in KL

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A homeless man was charged in the Magistrate's Court in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (Dec 31) with murdering a friend, also a homeless man.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/mrxtx6ft  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A homeless man was charged in the magistrate's court in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday with murdering

00:09a friend, also a homeless man, last month.

00:13Thirty-nine-year-old Ayman Abdullah did not enter a plea as the charge, read before Magistrate

00:18Farah Nabiha Mohammedan, falls under the jurisdiction of the High Court.

00:24According to the charge sheet, Ayman is accused of causing the death of 45-year-old P. Saravanan

00:30under a bridge near Jalantun Sambathan in Brickfields around 10 p.m. on November 23.

00:37The charge, framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code, carries the death penalty by hanging

00:43or imprisonment of 30 to 40 years, along with a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane upon conviction.

00:50Deputy Public Prosecutor Amritpreet Kaur Randhawa opposed bail and requested a mention

00:55date for the submission of post-mortem and forensic reports.

00:59The accused was not represented by legal counsel.

01:03The court set February 19 for the next mention.

01:08Initially classified as a sudden death case, the investigation was reclassified as murder

01:14after a post-mortem revealed the victim had suffered blunt force trauma to the head.

01:20CCTV footage from the scene reportedly captured the accused committing the act, leading to

01:25his arrest on December 19.

01:28The motive for the alleged murder remains unknown.

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