ANWAR BRINGS IN WORLD EXPERTS (DWIBAHASA)

Dr McDonald, who is director of both DNA Consults and Molecular Genetics for the Sonic Clinical Institute, has authored or co-authored 79 scientific papers, chapters in books and conference proceedings. He holds a PhD in Pathology from the University of Western Australia, has performed and reported over 5,000 paternity tests for family law cases.

Dr Damodaran, who has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Madras, has 28 years' experience in forensics and teaching and 36 years' in analytical biochemistry/biochemical toxicology forensic generics and biotechnology. He had been involved in 96 research based publications in leading journals and received the Home Minister award for outstanding contribution to forensic science in 1995.

Dr Wells, who is division head (clinical foreign medicine) of the Victoria Institute of Forensic Medicine, received the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 1992.

Anwar lantik tiga pakar DNA, forensik asing

Pasukan peguam perbicaraan kes liwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini mengumumkan pelantikan tiga pakar asing dalam bidang DNA dan forensik untuk membantu mereka dalam kes tersebut.

Dalam satu kenyataan, peguam Anwar, Sankara Nair berkata beliau akan membawa tiga pakar tersebut ke Mahkamah tinggi Kuala Lumpur esok.

Mereka ialah pakar DNA, Dr Brian Mc Donald dari Sydney Australia, dan pakar forensik - Dr C Damodaran, dari Chennai, India, Dr David Wells dari Melbourne, Australia.

Esok ialah keputusan terhadap permohonan Anwar supaya Hakim yang sedang mendengar kesnya - Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Dian - menarik diri.

Manakala Mahkamah Rayuan pula telah menetapkan hari ini untuk memutuskan rayuan ketua umum PKR itu terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi menolak permohonannya untuk membatalkan tuduhan liwat terhadapnya.

Sejak beberapa hari lalu, Malaysia berdepan dengan tekanan dari ahli parlimen Australia yang mendesak supaya digugurkan tuduhan liwat terhadap Anwar.

Pada masa yang sama, ahli parlimen Amerika pula mendesak Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak supaya memastikan perbicaraan kes Anwar berjalan secara adil.

Dr Mc Donald adalah seorang ahli patologi dari Universiti Western Australia. Beliau juga merupakan pengarah DNA Consults.

Beliau dipanggil untuk menyediakan Kepakarannya dalam bidang DNA yang dijangka dikemukakan dalam perbicaraan nanti.

Dr Damodaran pula mempunyai 28 tahun pengalaman dalam bidang forensik dan pengalaman mengajar, di samping 36 tahun pengalaman dalam bio-kimia, toksilogi dan forensik.

Sementara itu, Dr Wells merupakan prof madya dalam bidang jenayah di Universiti Melbourne.

Beliau kini merupakan ketua bahagian Perubatan Klinikal Forensik, Institut Perubatan Forensik Victoria.

Anwar, 63, dituduh meliwat bekas pembantunya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan 24, di Unit 11-5-1, Kondominium Desa Damansara, Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, di antara pukul 3.01 petang dan 4.30 petang 26 Jun 2008.

Ketua pembangkang dan ahli parlimen Permatang Pauh itu, dituduh mengikut Seksyen 377B Kanun Keseksaan dan boleh dihukum penjara sehingga 20 tahun dan disebat jika disabit kesalahan.

Hafiz Yatim/malaysiakini

================================================================================
Anwar Appoints Foreign Forensic Experts For Sodomy Case

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has appointed foreign DNA and forensic experts for the defence team to debunk the prosecution's claim of DNA analysis in his sodomy trial.

His lawyer Sankara Nair said the PKR leader had engaged the services of DNA expert Dr Brian Leslie McDonald from Sydney, Australia, and two forensic experts Prof Dr C. Damodaran from Chennai, India and Associate Professor David Lawrence Noel Wells from Melbourne, Australia.

In a statement e-mailed to the media Wednesday, Nair said he would be bringing the experts to the Kuala Lumpur High Court at 9am, Thursday.

On Thursday, High Court Judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah is scheduled to deliver his decision on Anwar's application for the judge to recuse himself from hearing the case.

Last week, Anwar applied to recuse Justice Mohamad Zabidin on the grounds that his two rulings concerning news reports of the case had raised an element of bias.

Anwar, 63, claimed trial to sodomising his former personal aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 25, in Bukit Damansara on June 26, 2008.

Attached together in the statement were their curriculum vitae.

Dr McDonald, who has a PhD in Pathology from the University of Western Australia, has performed and reported over 5,000 paternity tests for family law cases.

Dr McDonald, who is director of both DNA Consults and Molecular Genetics for the Sonic Clinical Institute, has authored or co-authored 79 scientific papers, chapters in books and conference proceedings.

Dr Damodaran, who has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Madras, has 28 years' experience in forensics and teaching and 36 years' in analytical biochemistry/biochemical toxicology forensic generics and biotechnology.

He was also the founder of India's DNA Fingerprinting Initiative as well as its first paternity testing centre. He had been involved in 96 research based publications in leading journals and received the Home Minister award for outstanding contribution to forensic science in 1995.

Dr Wells, who is division head (clinical foreign medicine) of the Victoria Institute of Forensic Medicine, received the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 1992.

BERNAMA