PUTRAJAYA, Sept 5 — The police and the Attorney-General’s Chambers must reopen investigations into the mysterious death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock in 2009 after the Court of Appeal ruled today that it was not suicide, sister Teoh Lee Lan said today.

Although she noted that the Court of Appeal’s decision was the final leg of the legal trail, a teary-eyed Lee Lan said this was just the beginning of the family’s long fight for the “truth” behind her brother’s mysterious fall to death.

“Today, after waiting five years for justice for us, the court decided that Beng Hock was persecuted, killed, tortured by persons who are still unknown, but including MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) officers,” the 34-year-old auditor told reporters today.

“We hope the police, AG will take immediate action, arrest the MACC officers involved based on this decision,” the family spokesman said.

Lee Lan noted that one of the Court of Appeal judges had listed down the names of the officers who had investigated or had contact with her brother prior to his death.

If the police and the AG do not review their probe within the next few days, she said the family would protest outside their offices.

She also urged federal lawmakers to raise her late brother’s case in Parliament.

“We hope all members of Parliament can take this case to Parliament and deal with this in an urgent manner because this justice has been owed to us for five years,” she said.

Beng Hock’s parents and elder brother were also present, with his mother Teng Shwu Hoi solemn and clutching a photograph of her son who died just days before his wedding.

Beng Hock’s family have been in and out of the courtrooms over the past five years, after the 30-year-old groom-to-be was found sprawled in a pool of his own blood on the fifth-floor landing of the Plaza Masalam building in Shah Alam in the early afternoon of July 16, 2009.

He was found dead after being questioned and held overnight as a witness at the 14th floor of the same building, which was also the then Selangor MACC headquarters.

In a separate case filed on October 30, 2012, four of Beng Hock’s family members — his father Teoh Leong Hwee, his mother, his then-fiancee Soh Cher Wei and their son Teoh Er Jia — are seeking damages for sadness, loss of dependency and negligence on the part of the MACC and 13 other defendants in his death.

The civil suit for negligence has been stayed pending today’s outcome at the Court of Appeal.

No one has been charged over Teoh’s death.