High Court acquits man in 2020 Senai murder case

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The Johor Baru High Court has acquitted and discharged a 43-year-old unemployed man who was accused of murdering a senior citizen in Senai back in 2020. Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4fsm26su   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The Johor Bahru High Court on Thursday acquitted and discharged an unemployed man over a murder

00:06case in Senai five years ago.

00:0943-year-old S. Adinarayanan walked away a free man after the court found him not guilty

00:15of murdering 64-year-old T. Krishnan.

00:18The offence allegedly took place at a house along Jalan Senai Jaya Enam in Taman Senai

00:23Jaya between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. on August 3, 2020.

00:29The accused was charged under Section 302 of the penal code, which provides the death sentence

00:34or imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years, with at least 12 strokes of the cane.

00:39The victim's body was found inside the premises with injuries to the head and body.

00:44The court said the prosecution failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, adding that

00:49there was no proof linking the accused with the weapon as his DNA was not found on it.

00:55The court said one of the prosecution's eyewitnesses had since died, which meant that the defence

01:00was unable to cross-examine his statement.

01:04The court said the witness had also said he could not clearly recall meeting the accused

01:09as he was intoxicated at the time.

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