Police officer acquitted of giving false information in alleged bid to divert attention from discipline inquiry
Prosecution's theory 'a long shot'
By Chong Shin Yen
September 02, 2010
A police officer under investigation for allegedly trying to hit on a woman complainant found himself in deeper trouble.
On the night he was told of the investigation, he claimed that he was attacked and injured by two men after he confronted them.
But Corporal Muhammad Harris Abdullah, 24, found himself in court charged with giving false information to the police.
The prosecution alleged that his account was a concoction devised to divert attention away from the disciplinary inquiry against him.
During a one-day trial in May, the prosecution argued that the injury suffered by Cpl Muhammad Harris - a stab wound with a knife to his upper back - was self-inflicted.
In July, District Judge Lim Wee Ming acquitted Cpl Muhammad Harris.
Giving his grounds of decision last month, he said that the prosecution's theory of how the accused had stabbed himself so that it would overshadow the disciplinary investigation was "a long shot".
