The doctor sticks to his guns
As reported yesterday, Anwar’s well-anticipated trial on sodomy charges is moving forward with the next scheduled court date to be the 10th of September. Interest in available evidence mounts.
State-run Bernama news agency reports (but offers no details) that the police are investigating the “Statutory Declaration By Dr. Osman”  - That is, Dr Mohamad Osman Abdul Hamid, the physician who first examined Saiful Bukhari Azlan. It is also the same doctor who’s leaked report indicated no evidence for the alleged rape.  Osman claims no involvement in the leak.
The statutory declaration, dated Aug 1 and published by the Malaysia Today website, contains among other things, assertions that Dr Mohamad Osman is standing by his findings that he did not see any abnormalities when he examined Mohamad Saiful on June 28.
The plot thickens with allegations of police wrongdoing:
Dr Mohamed Osman said that some time in early July, he was visited by an officer from the Brickfields district police’s criminal division, ASP Rosmi Mat Derus, who interviewed him about the medical examination on Mohd Saiful.
He said ASP Rosmi recorded the statement in in his own handwriting in Bahasa Malaysia.
The following week the same officer returned with a typed statement in Bahasa Malaysia for him to read and sign.
However, he said certain facts that were not discussed in the previous meeting had been introduced in the typed statement, namely Anwar’s name.
Dr Mohamed Osman claimed Anwar’s name was never brought up during the first interview and Mohd Saiful also never confided to him about the identity of the alleged perpetrator.
“About a week later I was visited by a plainclothes police officer by the name of DSP Choo from the criminal division of the Jalan Hang Tuah district police, who impressed on me that I would be charged if I refused to cooperate with the police,” he added.
Dr Mohamed Osman said he then decided to flee the country with his family as he feared for his and their safety.
Sound fishy to you?
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