Rahmat Mohamed Hazlan, one of their lawyers, confirmed that the case management will be conducted online before a Court of Appeal deputy registrar.
On June 21, the Shah Alam High Court acquitted and discharged Samirah, 47, who is Nazrin’s widow, and the two teenagers, aged 19 and 16, after finding that the prosecution had failed to establish a prima facie case against them.
High Court judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman held that there was no direct evidence to show that they had committed the offence.
In his decision, the judge ruled that the evidence that Samirah and the teenagers were the last persons to be with Nazrin cannot be said to have led to his murder.
Samirah and the two teenagers, as well as an Indonesian woman, Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large, were charged with murdering Nazrin, 45, at his house in Mutiara Damansara between 11.30pm on June 13, 2018 and 4am the following day.
On June 23, the attorney-general’s chambers filed its notice of appeal against the High Court’s decision to acquit the trio of the murder charge.
On June 30, Samirah and the teenagers also filed an appeal to challenge certain findings of facts by the High Court, including that the fire that broke out in Nazrin’s room was “done deliberately”.
The High Court judge, in his oral judgment, had said the court accepted the testimonies of Kuala Lumpur fire and rescue department director Edwin Galan Teruki and investigating officer Halim Zulkefeli, that the fire was deliberately lit.
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