Evidence from cell confirms Anwar's guilt: prosecutor

Fresh from campaigning in the Merlimau by-election last night, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim is back in the dock for his sodomy trial which resumes this afternoon at the High Court with submission being heard on the defence application for a trial within trial.

This follows the prosecution's application to try to admit a number of items as evidence - a mineral water bottle, a toothbrush, a 'Good morning' towel and a strand of hair - retrieved from a cell where Anwar was detained overnight between July 16 and July 17, 2008.

Three of the items - the mineral water bottle, toothbrush and towel - were found by chemist Nor Aidora Saedon to contain the DNA of 'Male Y', complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's alleged perpetrator.

Defence lawyer Karpal Singh had requested for a trial within trial to decide on the admissibility of those items as evidence which he claimed to have been obtained unfairly and in an illegal manner.

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