KTemoc Konsiders ........: Manohara Odelia circus about to start

Friday, June 19, 2009

Manohara Odelia circus about to start

The saga of the Kelantan Princess continues as Malaysiakini published US$2mil offer: Blog claims model 'concocting' tales.

Yesterday sweetie Helen Ang penned an article in Malaysiakini titled No room for double standards where she posed pertinent points about the police’s double-standard use of kid gloves when (non) handling the accused rapist, by Godzilla-ish contrast to far less serious cases, especially those involving (doomed) young Indians.

However, I note that sweetie Helen appeared to be very sympathetic towards Manohara Odelia Pinot, when she wrote:

"I'm inclined to believe Manohara's story as there is a ring of truth to her description, such as how she didn't tell her ambitious mother about the alleged rape (behaviour congruent with confused and conflicted teen), and how she was more frightened by the helpless condition due to the temporary drug-induced paralysis than by the sight of a razor slicing her (a rather astute psychological insight for a young person to be credited with)."

But I wonder whether her conclusion that Manohara possessed ‘…a rather astute psychological insight for a young person to be credited with …’ kinda discredited her support of the Princess?

Anyway, we are all speculating one way or another, based in large part on our suspicion, prejudice and, to a very large extent, our experience of how our police and royalty might/would have behaved.

I am far more interested in the news that Manohara has obtained the service of a Jakarta lawyer by the name of Hotman Paris Hutapea. Hotman Paris was one of the lawyers for Australian Schapelle Corby when she was on trial in Bali for drug smuggling some 4 years ago.

Read my previous posts on the Corby case below where Counsellor Hotman Paris Hutapea had appeared. Tengku Muhammad Fakhry can relax lah, ‘coz with Hotman Paris (and based on the Schapelle Corby defence proceedings) we may expect more gimmicks than points of law. ;-)

One of Hotman Paris' rather bizarre action in Corby's defence was to engage Indon sweetie actress Anisa Tri Hapsari, though millions of Australians still haven't fathomed what her role was supposed to be? wakakaka.