The Chief Justice said a discharge not amounting to an acquittal struck the correct balance between the public interest in completing investigations into Ms Teo’s death and the personal liberty of an individual.
Police had questioned Ahmad after Ms Teo went missing in 2007, but he claimed then that he did not know what had happened to her.This time, he revealed that he was involved in the disposal of her remains, that he was involved in the disposal of her possessions, and that he had not been truthful in 2007.– including one for dumping her corpse and one for giving false evidence to the police. The sentence was backdated to when he was arrested on Dec 15, 2020.
The prosecution had sought the discharge as Mr Ragil was still at large and efforts to trace him in Indonesia were ongoing.