TENOM: An witness in the trial of Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, also known as Ebit Lew, stated in the Magistrate’s Court that they were unsuccessful in attempts to retrieve deleted conversation messages from a woman’s Whatsapp application on a mobile phone.
43-year-old Royal Malaysia Police senior audio-video analyst, Latifah Abdul Aziz, reported that her analysis of the complainant’s mobile phone found that the Whatsapp application is a platform that does not store any data.
She mentioned that any conversation messages deleted in the WhatsApp application cannot be recovered.
She also stated that she does not have full knowledge of whether there are conversation messages in the Whatsapp application of the mobile phone.
Latifah further clarified that while deleted messages were visible in the conversation content of a screenshot dated Aug 7, 2021, suggesting a potential deletion of messages, it cannot be fully confirmed.
Lew, 38, faces 11 charges, including outraging the modesty of a woman in her 40s by sending obscene words and images to the victim’s phone number via the WhatsApp application between March and June 2021.
The charges under Section 509 of the Penal Code could lead to a prison sentence of up to five years or a fine or both if convicted.
The trial before Magistrate Nur Asyraf Zolhani continues on Wednesday (Jan 10). – Bernama
