Accompanied by her lawyer C.V. Prabhakaran, Shamsidar Taharin (R) and her husband Azmin Ali (L) leave the Malaysian High Court in Kuala Lumpur December 31. The court on Thursday decided to defer the testimony of a government chemist to allow the defence counsel of ousted finance minister Anwar Ibrahim time to get the advice of a DNA expert. On Wednesday, the chemist testified that DNA test showed some semen stains on a matress belonged to Anwar and Shamsidar. Azmin Ali was Anwar's former private secretary.

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