Prema S Naraynasamy, who is serving 17 years' jail for her role in the fatal abuse of Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don, gave testimony in court that was different from what she previously admitted to.
The witness, Chelvam's former mother-in-law Prema S Naraynasamy, hadthat was different from what she had previously said in police statements and her own court documents for her offences.
Chelvam is the last to be dealt with by the courts. He is on trial for four charges of hurting the maid, abetting Gaiyathiri in starving her, removing evidence in the form of the CCTV recorder and lying to the police. She also said she was not concentrating when the police statement was taken and instead"panicked" as she did not know what to do.When Mr Teh put it to Prema that her new oral testimony about pulling out the CCTV recorder was a blatant attempt to change her evidence using her testimony in court, Prema said:"No, your honour, I promise I never do that. I don't want to change anything.
This development came at the tail-end of Prema's turn on the stand. She had been testifying for two full days as a prosecution witness in Chelvam's trial.Earlier on Friday, Mr Teh had asked Prema questions about certain answers she gave defence lawyer Pratap Kishan. Chelvam, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, was later shown lifting the maid by grabbing her hair.When Mr Teh tried to show Prema the footage and asked her to explain her evidence, Prema refused to look at it, saying she was"unable to".
In one exchange, Gaiyathiri told the group that she caught the maid stealing spoilt ondeh ondeh from the dustbin at 1am. She said the maid locked herself in the toilet to eat it.The maid weighed only 24kg including her body bag when she died on Jul 26, 2016.
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