Breaking his silence over the acquittal of S Ambika, former solicitor-general III Mohamad Hanafiah Zakaria said there was insufficient evidence to secure a murder conviction.

There was an uproar after the housewife walked free over the charge of killing her Indonesian domestic worker Adelina Lisao.

However, Hanafiah (above), who is now in private practice, said the evidence gathered would have been inadequate to even convict her for the lesser offence of causing death by negligence.

He told Malaysiakini that the then Penang state prosecution director and deputy public prosecutors (DPPs) from the Penang state prosecution director’s office first proposed not to...