Ebit Lew case: Software failed to identify deleted messages
ASYIKIN ASMIN
TENOM - The seventh witness in the trial of celebrity preacher Ebit Lew informed the court that the XRY software system for processing mobile phone analysis failed to identify any deleted data from the case items.
Assistant Superintendent Latifah Abdul Aziz, the Senior Audio Video Investigation Analyst of the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), stated this when defence lawyer Ram Singh questioned whether she extracted any deleted messages from the complainant's Samsung Galaxy A31 mobile phone in the case.
"No, I mean that the system couldn't detect any deleted data from the evidence," she said in response to cross-examination at the Tenom Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.
Asked whether her response was due to the system not allowing her to perform such extractions, she clarified: "No, I mean it's not that the system prevented me from conducting data extractions." It means the system itself couldn't identify any data that had been deleted from the case items.
Meanwhile, Latifah agreed that she was not instructed to recover the deleted messages.
However, Latifah wasn't sure that recovering the deleted messages was crucial for the accused's defence and prosecution.
Latifah added that she was unsure whether retrieving the deleted messages was significant in the court for revealing the truth of the conversations between the accused and the complainant.
Before this, in the trial last May, Latifah informed the court that the analysis results she obtained from the extracted Samsung Galaxy A31 mobile phone were 436 images and four videos out of 8010 contents from the case items.
Ebit, whose real name is Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, 38, faces 11 charges of sending indecent images and words intended to tarnish the victim's honour through the WhatsApp application between March and June 2021 under Section 509 of the Penal Code.
His team of lawyers represents him; Ram, Kamarudin Mohmad Chinki, Timothy Daut, and Nizam Salleh Keruak, while Nor Azizah Mohamad and Zahida Zakaria represent the prosecution, and the Magistrate is Nur Asyraf Zolhani.
