A Sabah Education Department official has revealed that school authorities at SMK Taun Gusi in Kota Belud, Sabah, failed to submit attendance records of a teacher who allegedly skipped class for seven months in 2015.

The records were requested to facilitate investigations launched in 2018 following a lawsuit filed against English teacher Mohd Jainal Jamran by his former student Siti Nafirah.

Abidin, who was the department’s academic management section chief at the time, testified at the High Court in Kota Kinabalu today that...