Senior lawyer Hisyam Teh to lead defence in Paul Yong’s rape appeal

Senior lawyer Hisyam Teh to lead defence in Paul Yong’s rape appeal

The Court of Appeal will hear the ex-Tronoh assemblyman's case from Jan 30.

Paul Yong was found guilty of raping his 23-year-old Indonesian maid and sentenced to 13 years’ jail and two strokes of the rotan on July 27, 2022.
PUTRAJAYA:
Senior lawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik will be the lead counsel for former Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong’s appeal against his conviction and sentence of 13 years’ jail and two strokes of the rotan for raping his maid in 2019.

Sources confirmed that Hisyam will be leading the defence team with lawyers Rajpal Singh and Salim Bashir.

The Court of Appeal has set Jan 30 for the hearing.

Hisyam Teh Poh Teik.

Yong’s case is also fixed on Dec 5 before the Court of Appeal for the hearing of his application to include additional grounds to his petition of appeal.

On July 27 last year, the Ipoh High Court found Yong guilty of raping his 23-year-old Indonesian maid in a room in his house in Ipoh, Perak, between 8.15pm and 9.15pm on July 7, 2019.

Yong, 53, was given a stay of execution pending his appeal to the Court of Appeal.

The High Court also allowed Yong to be released on bail of RM30,000 in one surety and ordered him to surrender his passport to the court.

Yong had denied the rape charge.

In his decision, High Court judge Abdul Wahab Mohamed said the court agreed with the prosecution that Yong’s defence that the rape incident did not occur was not credible, and was merely a denial and an afterthought.

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