Since the PDRM, or at least its CID boss, are showing such an active interest in alleged offences (of which there is no proof) and which did, or did not, occur some eighteen months ago why should they not resume the investigation into the Altantuya murder?

Obviously the CID branch of the PDRM does not have unlimited resources or spare investigators so its chief must deploy what he has on the most important cases. That being so could he please explain why he has deployed hard pressed staff on an investigation into an alleged offence of sodomy for which there is no credible evidence of any kind and which no prosecutor would dream for one moment of presenting to a criminal court? Surely an officer of such long service and experience must be fully aware of these facts? And yet this “enquiry” is given full publicity and all Malaysians are assured that dastardly crime of this kind, even if committed years ago and for which there is no evidence, will be followed up by every Sherlock Holmes that can muster a deerstalker hat and a magnifying glass.

Meanwhile the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya attracts no apparent police attention. Of course it was only a murder, and of a foreigner at that, and so, presumably, ranks at or below a reputed sodomy incident but still surely it needs some attention? Even if only at the level of the police officers convicted of the murder itself.

And all this is not the end of the CID chief’s woes. A number of accused parties in the murder of DPP Morais remain half tried for years for reasons that are, at least to the Malaysian public, obscure. One has to hope that the Commissioner of the CID is not simllaly uninformed.  A statement about this case might reassure the public that D Branch at Bukit Aman are not on indefinite leave of absence.