POLICE discredited a security guard who allegedly witnessed the abduction of missing activist Amri Che Mat, the Suhakam inquiry heard today.

This was revealed by police observer Sentul police chief R. Munusamy who had accused security guard Yousri Khalid of lying.

He said they were discrepancies in the police report which Yousri lodged on November 26, 2016 at 2.20am at IPD Padang Besar.

Munusamy said the testimony given at the inquiry and the police report lodged was different.

He said in Yousri’s testimony, three windows in Amri car was broken, three of his colleagues was with him and two police officers were (present at the scene) when he went to check on the abandoned vehicle. 

“In the police report it was stated two windows was broken and there no names of the other three security guards and police.”

Munusamy ask Yousri about the police report he lodged, and whether it is true.

Yousri said the report was not true, as some information was missing.

Munusamy asked if he is lying, to which Yousri admitted he was, but repeated certain parts of the report he had lodged were missing.

He then explained to the panel a report cannot be altered.

“If there is any amendment, a new police report needs to be lodged with a new serial number,” he said.

Suhakam commissioner Mah Weng Kwai then interjected as Yousri appeared confused by the question.

Mah then clarified to Yousri the  question asked was not if Yousri was lying but that the police report was incomplete and its contents were incorrect and therefore a lie.

Yousri said he agreed because the police report is not complete.

He said what was written on the day he lodged the police report is not the same as the one he acquired a few days before coming for the inquiry.

Yousri said he brought the police report because his employer had lost his original copy.

Yousri and three other guards who work at a construction site next to an abandoned school where Amri’s car was found had claimed to witness a pickup truck leaving the area the night of his abduction.

Commissioner Aishah Bidin then ask Yousri if he was tired the day he lodged the report as he had to go back and forth to the police station.

“You had been working the whole day. Could it be you were tired when they took your statement at 4am, and you missed out certain parts?” she asked.

Yousri agreed it could be the case.

Amri was abducted 550m from his home in Padang Behor, Kangar. Police later found his car in Bukit Chabang.

The 43-year-old, who was part of the 1997 Malaysian Mount Everest expedition team, had reportedly told his eldest daughter he was going out the night of his disappearance. He has four daughters, aged between 10 and 19.

In her police report, Amri’s wife, Norhayati Ariffin, said there had been unknown cars and motorcycles parked near their home the day her husband went missing.

The inquiry is chaired by Mah, Aishah and Dr Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh.

The panel aims to determine whether the abductions of Pastor Raymond Koh and Amri, as well as the disappearance of two others – Joshua and Ruth Hilmy – in 2016, were cases of enforced disappearance sanctioned by the state. – January 25, 2018.