It is exactly six months yesterday since the prosecution's appeal against the acquittal of two police Special Action unit officers, chief inspector Azilah Hadri and corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, was heard at the Federal Court in the case involving the death of Altantuya Shaariibuu.

However, no decision by the five-member bench led by Chief Justice Arifin Zakaria in the country’s highest court is forthcoming...