According to media reports, the defence staff assistant at the Malaysian High Commission in Wellington is still being held at the Tuanku Mizan Military Hospital where his mental and emotional health are bring monitored.
"We have decided that we will send this warrant officer to New Zealand when the time is right and after every need that was discussed is fulfilled," Zulkefli told reporters today.
"It is not about time, even we don't know when. But we believe that he (Rizalman) will be sent later.
"As was said before, Rizalman is innocent until the evidence proves otherwise. As the minister (Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein) said yesterday, the public is advised not to make their own judgements," he said in Kuala Lumpur.
Rizalman was supposed to be flown back to New Zealand today but the plans were shelved temporarily after doctors ordered more psychiatric tests to be conducted as he seemed withdrawn and depressed.
The case made headlines both in Malaysia and New Zealand following reports that Rizalman had returned to Malaysia after invoking diplomatic immunity despite his arrest on May 9 for attempted burglary and sexual assault.
It was also reported that Malaysia had asked New Zealand to drop all charges against Rizalman.
Putrajaya, however, later announced that it will extradite Rizalman, after having initially turned down the NZ government's request to waive his diplomatic immunity.
- TMI
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