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| Aminulrasyid's mother, Norsiah Mohamad (left), and sister Nor Azura Amzah look on during a press conference outside the High Court in Shah Alam April 17, 2013. — Picture by Choo Choy |
Flanked by incumbent PAS MP Khalid Samad, the family’s decision to sue will provide Pakatan Rakyat (PR) fodder in the campaign for Shah Alam, now a major focus of Election 2013 after Barisan Nasional (BN) named controversial Islamic firebrand Zulkifli Noordin as its candidate there yesterday.
“We are suing for
negligence in the discharge of duties, where the police went on a shooting
spree,” Aminulrasyid’s family lawyer, N. Surendran, told reporters at the High
Court lobby here today.
The High Court here overturned
last December the conviction of policeman Corporal Jenain Subi for causing the
death of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid in a high-speed car chase in Shah Alam about
three years ago.
Aminulrasyid was killed in
the early hours of April 26 in 2010, after taking a midnight joyride in a car
and allegedly mistaken for a felon on the run by the police.
He had been driving a white
Proton Iswara with his best friend and neighbour, 15-year-old Muhammad
Azamuddin Omar in the front passenger seat. Their car had crashed into the curb
at Jalan Tarian 11/2, Section 11 following a police pursuit.
A public outcry followed as
the police sought to defend themselves over the incident as well as dubitable
reports of the discovery of a machete in the car driven by Aminulrasyid.
But in September 2011,
Jenain had been found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and
sentenced to five years’ jail after Sessions Court judge Latifah Mohd Tahar
ruled that the use of lethal force to stop Aminulrasyid’s car was excessive and
uncalled for.
Jenain had admitted to
firing 21 bullets from his Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun at
Aminulrasyid’s Proton Iswara in an effort to stop the car — which had earlier
run a roadblock — but denied trying to kill the teenager.
- TMI
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