KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 — PAS’ Datuk Mahfuz Omar said today he will arrange a phone call session between Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Sirul Azhar Umar — who was sentenced to death for killing Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.
The phone call, said the PAS information chief would allow Sirul the chance to tell the former prime minister his “side of the story.”
"I will arrange for another meeting so I can make a phone call to Sirul and give him the chance to tell Tun his side of the story in detail," Mahfuz told reporters at the Parliament lobby here.
The Pokok Sena MP also confirmed that he had brought Sirul's mother, Piah Samat and her brother, to meet the former prime minister yesterday at the Yayasan Perdana in Putrajaya.
He said while Dr Mahathir did not promise anything during the meeting yesterday, he appeared attentive when listening to Sirul’s mother.
Over the weekend, the former prime minister urged the police to investigate the former police commando’s claim that he killed Altantuya under orders, saying it was “grossly unfair” to send hang Sirul for obeying instructions.
The former prime minister said Sirul, who is now in Australia, should be allowed to state his case as he had already said he was only carrying out orders.
Sirul and another police commando, Azilah Hadri, were charged with murdering Altantuya in 2006 and convicted by the High Court in 2009.
They were freed after the appellate court acquitted them in 2013, but the Federal Court reversed the acquittal in January and sent them back to hang, marking the end to the eight-year saga.
Sirul was a no-show during the Federal Court hearing and it was later revealed that he is in Australia.
Malaysia is seeking to extradite him to face his sentencing but he remains in Sydney as Australia’s laws forbid its government from sending criminals to countries that have the death penalty.
