‘Aggressive’ attack on Kim Jong Nam shown
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A Vietnamese woman accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader was captured on camera making an “aggressive” attack on him, two days after a similar act on another person, a police investigator told a Malaysian court yesterday.
Doan Thi Huong, 28, is charged along with Siti Aisyah, an Indonesian woman, with killing Kim Jong Nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical poison banned by the United Nations, at Kuala Lumpur airport on February 13.
There was “a stark difference” in Huong’s movements in two closed circuit television recordings made in the airport’s third level departure hall, said police official Wan Azirul Nizam Che Wan Aziz.
The first recording on February 11 showed Huong approach an unidentified member of the public from behind to wipe something on the person’s face “in a soft manner,” he said.
She then appeared to apologize, placing her hands together and bowing her head, before retreating slowly, added Wan Azirul, a member of the airport district’s Criminal Investigations Department.
But a similar act carried out on Kim Jong Nam was “quite rough and seemed more like an attack,” Wan Azirul said.
“For me, the act seemed aggressive. Other differences I saw were in her movements — compared to before, the accused Doan moved in a quick and rushed manner,” he said, using Huong’s first name.
The women have pleaded not guilty, saying they thought they were involved in some sort of prank for a reality TV show. They face the death penalty if convicted.
Chemical weapons expert Raja Subramaniam said degradation products of VX were found on Huong’s fingernails but not on the rest of her hands.
Traces of VX were found on the clothes worn by both accused women, Subramaniam said in court last week.
Yesterday, Subramaniam also declared impossible a theory that the VX was created by combining together two non-poisonous chemicals, saying it would have required large amounts of heat in order to work.
Hisyam Teh, Huong’s lawyer, argued during cross-examination that she could not have known she was handling VX.
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