Former staff member at the Malaysian High Commission in New Zealand Muhammad Rizalman Ismail said he believed in black magic but denied defecating outside the home of the woman he assaulted, to put a spell on her.
Rizalman, then a second warrant officer, also told a High Court in Wellington yesterday that a superior officer – an uncle who was a shaman – had put a spell on him.
The 39-year-old, who admitted to indecently assaulting Tania Billingsley, 21, on May 10, 2014, following the attack in her home in the Wellington suburb of Brooklyn, was giving evidence outlining his version of events, nzherald.co.nzreported.
When asked by crown prosecutor Grant Burston if he knew a spell on a woman could make her fall in love by defecating outside her house, Rizalman replied: “I don’t know because I’ve never practised it.”
The accused denied that it was black magic when he took off his belt, lowered his trousers and underpants outside the victim’s front door.
Rizalman was also asked about an assessment report in June last year about his “increased interest towards women”.
He denied going to Mermaids, a strip club, because he was interested in looking at attractive women but said he had gone there to “listen to music and release tension”.
He admitted to buying synthetic cannabis at Cosmic on Cuba on May 2 last year but denied being sexually interested in the two female assistants at the shop, nor in the strippers in Mermaids.
Rizalman also admitted to smoking cannabis back in Malaysia last year, six weeks before he went into a psychiatric hospital, saying it helped him relax and sleep.
He said he was led to believe that Billingsley had invited him back to her house “not from her speech but from her mannerisms and the way she smiled and behaved”.
Rizalman said he waited for a long time because he expected her to invite him in.
He denied taking off his pants and underpants because he wanted to have sex with Billingsley, but had entered her house to ask to use the bathroom.(The Star)
Link: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/05/black-magic-suspected-in-nz-case-exhigh-commission-staffer-denies-defecating-outside-womans-house/
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