Back The Yusoff Rawther Anwar Ibrahim Case Does Two Wrongs Make A Right

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(NW) – Yusoff Rawther is currently on remand at the Sungai Buloh Prison.
He is in prison, because last year in September, a couple of fake guns and a few hundred grams of ganja was found in his car, following a controversial police raid.
Now there is a reason why I am calling the police raid on his car controversial. You can read about it here and here, to understand why. From acting on an anonymous phone call within hours of receiving the tip off to the fact that the raid was headed by a police officer from the intelligence department– which I found to be rather odd – to the fact Yusoff himself tested negative for ganja or any other drugs, despite being caught with a few hundred grams of ganja, there is just something very odd and incredulous about the drug and firearms charges that has resulted in Yusoff being held in prison today.
Yusoff himself is calling his ordeal a “frame up”, and although the court of law has not come up with a verdict, I feel that in the court of public opinion, many people are inclined to see Yusoff’s ordeal from his point of view.
However, it seems that Yusoff’s story does not start from the controversial police raid on his car last September.
Rather, it might have had its origin 6 years ago, when Yusoff alleged that he was sexually assaulted by PMX Anwar in October 2018.
At that time, Anwar Ibrahim was 72 years of age. Yusoff, on the other hand, was 26.
Anwar also has just been released from jail in 2018, after spending around 3 years in prison, also for a sexual assault related charge.
Anwar also, at that point in time, just a few days away from contesting in the Port Dickson by-election, which he would win.
As to how a 26-year-old guy in the prime of his youth can be sexually assaulted by a 72 year old man, who had just been released from prison not more than a year ago, is something that you will have to answer for yourself, because I certainly can’t fit it into my imagination.
And as to whether anyone can be so foolish, as to get themselves embroiled in another sexual assault case, when they were just released from a sexual assault case less than a year ago, and that too at a time when they were likely extremely busy handling a by election, I leave it to you to decide as well.
Despite Yusoff filing a police report on Anwar , the Attorney General at the time, Tommy Thomas, decided to not prosecute Anwar.
In response to the refusal of the authorities to subject Anwar to criminal charges, Yusoff would then decide to file a civil suit against Anwar in July 2021, to seek damages.
I don’t know why it took so long, but although the civil suit was filed in July 2021, the full trial is only scheduled to run in a couple of weeks time , on June 16, 2025.
Now the question that I am sure is on the mind of many of us in the public, is whether Yusoff having his car raided in September last year has anything to do with his impending civil suit against Anwar that is about to go to trial in a couple of weeks?
This question might be on our mind especially, considering that Anwar looks like he really doesn’t want to be dragged to the courts to answer to Yusoff’s charges, to the point that just last week, at the very last minute, Anwar’s new lawyer was petitioning the courts to provide Anwar immunity from the trial, under the excuse that it will impede his constitutional duty to act as the prime minister of the country.
When Anwar is so desperate to avoid this trial, to the point that he even combed the constitution to find an excuse as to why he should not be subject to such a trial, and considering that the police raid on Yusoff’s car that got him in prison last September seemed a rather odd and incredulous event, I am sure that many people, including myself, can’t help but wonder if all these events are somehow interconnected with each other.
I am not saying that it is inter connected – I don’t know if it is inter connected – I just know what I know from reading about it in the local news outlets – but I will just say that as a regular person with a functioning mind, I don’t think I should be faulted, if the natural inclination of my mind is seeing possibilities and see patterns emerging in this entire affair.
To be fair to Anwar, if I were in Anwar’s shoes, I probably wouldn’t want to attend this trial either, when it is likely going to be a sleazy and humiliating affair, judging by how Yusoff had described the assault he endured, in statutory declaration previously.
I can’t seem to find Yusoff’s statutory declaration online anymore –the best that I can do is a partial excerpt given in here – but I did read the statutory declaration many years ago, and I when i read it , i remember thinking that much of it sounded like it was an excerpt from a porn fiction.
Other than that, I also remember that in his statutory declaration, the assault that he described had much to do with words, presentations and gestures, rather than action or physical contact.
Considering that much of the “assault” was in the form of expressions, presentations and gestures, I actually can’t understand why Yusoff is going through all this trouble to go through with his case, when he not only does not even have much of a case, even from his own version of the story, nothing physical happened.
I don’t know what the legal standards are, but in the common standards, if you are a male adult, and a 70 something year old person said something sexual suggestive to you or does something like flash their private part to you, what it entitles you is to abuse them verbally with choice words, not have a date with them in court.
Also, from my non-legal point of view, I also don’t see why the prime minister of the country should be dragged to court for a case like this, when the fact of the matter is that whether the sexual assault episode happened at all, is solely dependent on the testimony of just one person.
Considering that the prime minister is a political figure, who has a lot of political opponents, I am also wondering whether allowing anyone to drag the prime minister to court just based on their testimony alone, is going to open a flood gate of other similar cases, where anyone – especially someone who is politically opposed to a minister or the prime minister- will be able to allege that the prime minister did something like sexually assault them, before filing a civil suit against the prime minister and dragging them to court.
I am not saying that I don’t think that the prime minister should be dragged to court – but I do think that a case should have some standard, before you force someone like the prime minister of the country to appear in court.
I think that if you want to drag the prime minister to court, you should at least have some video evidence or more than one witness or a medical report or some other material evidence, to indicate the prime minister has committed a wrongdoing, and not just be able to drag the prime minister to court just based on the testimony of one person.
As for Yusoff, although he initially had my sympathies for being held in jail for so many months over a case that frankly, I personally found to be odd and incredulous, when seen against the backdrop of his charges against Anwar, I have to confess, as a regular joe, I am starting to wonder whether what he is enduring is the result of injustice and oppression, or just a case a wrong being corrected with another wrong.
Honestly, I can’t see why he can’t just let his accusation against Anwar go, even if it is true, when nothing significant happened, and it all happened 6 years ago.
If somebody raped you, then yes, I can see why you might hold a grudge against them for years or decades or even a lifetime, but if they just flashed you or said some sexually suggestive words to you, why can’t you just curse them and wash your hands over the matter?
So far, from what I know about the entire affair, I am inclined to believe that what is happening here is likely a case of people trying to turn a wrong into a righ by inflicting it with another wrong, but so far, i think that all that they have succeeded in doing, is making everything turn into one big mess instead.
Personally, I hope that the next time I hear about this affair, what will happen is that this entire thing will just end with PMX Anwar not needing to appear to court and Yusoff be released from prison and the charges that is upon himis dropped, and everybody involved will just walk away from each other, go back to their life, wife and job, and forget about this entire affair.
Source : NewsWaz
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