Two accused in death of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother revisit the crime scene
Kuala Lumpur — Handcuffed, wearing bulletproof vests and under heavily armed guard, the two women accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader were pushed around a Malaysian airport in wheelchairs on Tuesday during a court visit to the crime scene. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, are charged with murdering Kim Jong-nam by smearing his face with VX, a chemical nerve agent, at Kuala Lumpur’s budget international terminal on February 13. The two women were brought back to the scene as part of an entourage of court officials, led by trial judge Azmi Ariffin and accompanied by more than 100 police officers and dozens of journalists, on a visit to retrace the events that unfolded before, during and after Kim Jong-nam’s death. Defence lawyers requested the visit after video recordings of the women on airport closed-circuit TV were screened in court. The site visit covered various locations in the terminal shown in the videos, such as a restaurant wher...
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