The explosions outside the Jalan Duta courthouse remains an unsolved case and one PKR leader wants the police to be accountable.
However, police are still no closer to finding the culprits. Sources close to the investigations said that there has been no substantial leads to bring them any closer to solving the case. “Still no leads,
it’s a cold case,” a source told FMT.
it’s a cold case,” a source told FMT.
Urging the authorities to provide some answers, PKR vice-president Tian Chua said that the lack of information from the police would only spur people to “suspect that it is a sabotage by the ‘other side’ as it can’t be Pakatan Rakyat”.
“The only story line that I can reconstruct is that they had assumed that the court would jail Anwar. The bomb would go off and Tian Chua would be arrested and charged, as always. But that didn’t happen,” said a chuckling Batu MP, who is well known for being vocal, and often getting physical, with the police.
“It just looks like a mouse trap that didn’t trap the mouse like they wanted to. Maybe the judge didn’t follow the script,” he said.
Likening the blasts to the Bersih 3.0 rally, Tian Chua said: “It gives me the feeling that it is almost like the Bersih set-up where they trapped us… into breaching the barricade. They are now coming out with a big sum of bills to charge it to [Bersih 2.0 co-chairperson] S Ambiga. They may have wanted to say ‘See? We give you peaceful assembly, but you turned it into a riot’,” he said.
Tian Chua said that the police cannot “keep quiet” but are obligated to inform the public the cause and motive of the bombings.
“It is also unacceptable for the police to say that they have come up with nothing. Even if there were no CCTV [footage], or fingerprints, you can’t just say we are stumped.”
Unprecedented case
“This is an unprecedented case where an important judiciary building was threatened. The police should not take this lightly; they should show more concern, give us a progress report,” he said.
“Luckily, I got the people to move out from the area at about the time a blast went off; it’s not that I anticipated anything but I didn’t want anything untoward to happen in such a crowded place,” he said.
On Jan 9, there were three explosions outside the Kuala Lumpur High Court. This happened after Anwar was acquitted of allegedly sodomising his aide, Saiful Bukhari Azlan in 2008.
A crowd of a few thousand Anwar supporters had gathered to lend support to the PKR leader.
The blasts had left five people injured and damaged several vehicles.
The five were PKR members Ng Kian Seng, 36, Zulhari Mansur, 20, Isaiah Jacob, 45, and Tang Eng Ghee, 47 and lawyer Keith Christopher Yeoh Min Kit, 26.
The first explosion went off at 10.30am on Jalan Khidmat Usaha, followed by a second one in Jalan Dutamas at 10.45am; and the third at 10.55am near the court’s second gate.
Two of the bombs were hidden under police traffic cones. The other was inside a rubbish bin.
No recordings of blasts
Police later found several items used to make the explosives such as alarm clocks and PVC pipes. The device was believed to be made by experts.
Police also believe the perpetrators intended to create chaos during the rally and the presence of ball bearings in the device also indicated intention of causing harm to people.
Police had said the absence of CCTV recordings during the explosions, with only the footage of the aftermath of the blasts, made it difficult to track down any suspects.
On Jan 12, Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar offered a RM10,000 reward to anyone who can provide leads that could result in the arrest of the culprits.
On Jan 21, FMT had interviewed a former military man who chided the police for not having caught the culprits within two weeks. “If I had the forensic evidence and the police resources, I could have at least delivered a list of suspects within 24 hours,” the individual, who was not named, had said.
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