Ebit Lew trial in Tenom: Deleted messages cannot be retrieved, says witness
Published on: Wednesday, January 10, 2024
By: Bernama
Preacher Ebit Lew faces 11 charges related to obscene messages that he is accused of sending to a woman in 2021. (Bernama pic)
Tenom: A witness in the trial of preacher Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, better known as Ebit Lew, told the magistrates’ court here that attempts to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages from a woman’s mobile phone were unsuccessful.
Police senior audio-video analyst Latifah Abdul Aziz, 43, the seventh prosecution witness, said any messages deleted in the WhatsApp application could not be recovered.
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She said this when questioned by deputy public prosecutor Nor Azizah Mohamad.
Nor Azizah: Can you explain why you agreed with the question posed by (lawyer) Ram Singh suggesting that there might be messages that had possibly been deleted?
Latifah: Please refer to the screenshot dated Aug 7, 2021, showing the conversation content from the WhatsApp application. I acknowledge the possibility of deleted messages, but I cannot verify.
The witness said, based on the screenshot, so-called deleted messages were visible in the conversation content, suggesting a potential deletion, but it could not be confirmed.
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Lew, 38, faces 11 charges, including outraging the modesty of a woman by sending obscene words and images to her phone through WhatsApp between March and June 2021.
The charges under Section 509 of the Penal Code provide a prison sentence of up to five years, a fine or both if convicted.
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The trial before magistrate Nur Asyraf Zolhani continues today.
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