Farid Kamil, 38, said he was with an artiste friend and a friend of the artiste at the artiste’s office in Kayu Ara at 10.10pm on Jan 9 last year, where he drank tea and smoked a cigarette that was given to him by the artiste’s friend.

He said he felt dizzy and his throat became dry.

“I had never felt such dizziness. After that, I lost consciousness. I don’t remember what happened. When I woke up a few hours later, I found myself no longer at my artiste friend’s office.

“I was awoken by police officers at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station,” he said when questioned by his lawyer, Amirul Ridzuan Hanif, on the first day of his defence proceedings before magistrate Nor Arifin Hisham.

Amirul Ridzuan: How did you get to the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station?

Farid Kamil: I don’t know how I got there, but on that day, I was informed by a police officer that I was clad in shirt and pants but without shoes. I asked what day it was and the time. The police said it was 3am on Jan 10, 2018.

Amirul Ridzuan: What happened next?

Farid Kamil: I was still dizzy and confused and the police asked for a telephone number to contact. The police then contacted my brother, Fadzil, and he arrived about 40 minutes later with a friend.

Last June 21, the Magistrate’s Court ordered Farid Kamil to enter his defence on the four charges after finding the prosecution having succeeded in establishing a prima facie case.

On Jan 16, 2018, Farid Kamil pleaded not guilty to two counts of deliberately causing injury to Ashraf Ahmad, 36, and Constable Muhammad Nizam Jamaluddin, 25.

He also faces two counts of using criminal force and for uttering improper words on Nizam with the intention of preventing him from doing his job.

The offences were allegedly committed at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail police station at 1.20am on Jan 11, 2018.

The hearing continuies on Sept 23.