High Court judge Datuk Akhtar Tahir said here on Tuesday the prosecution had proved a prima facie case against the accused.
In 2016, a welder, a blacksmith and a businessman were charged with kidnapping and wrongfully confining a 10-year-old boy for ransom. Quaik Yong Lai, 40, Goh Jit Ee, 42, and Heng Tian Chuan, 40, were accused of committing the offence in front of a music tuition centre in Taman Jernih in Bukit Mertajam at around 3.50pm on June 29 that year."The issue here was with the identity of the accused as the victim was only 10 years old when he was kidnapped.
"Although he was only 10 during the incident, he managed to identify the three accused in court and his reasoning behind the identification.Akhtar said the defence teams of the accused now had to submit their defence.Quaik and Heng were represented by RSN Rayer and his team while Goh was represented by Datuk K. Kumaraendran.