Second witness breaks down in Teoh RCI
By Boo Su-Lyn, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 — A Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) security guard broke down in tears today at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) investigating Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
Mohd Khairuddin Denan, 56, was the second witness to weep after a senior anti-graft officer shed tears before the RCI last month.
Khairuddin cried after RCI chairman Tan Sri James Foong asked him why didn’t he patrol the then-Selangor MACC office hours before Teoh was found dead outside the office on July 16, 2009.
“God didn’t move my heart to patrol (the office),” said Khairuddin at the inquiry today.
“If God doesn’t ask you to do, you don’t do? Depend on God, then every day, you don’t need to do,” Foong replied.
The security guard fell silent, bowed his head and cried, leading Foong to call for a recess.
Teoh, a DAP aide, was found sprawled on the fifth-floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam after he was questioned overnight by MACC officers at their then-Selangor headquarters on the 14th floor.
