Baffled though not bruised, he had to make his waycloseby on foot, lugging his carrier bag to hotel only to find and told, he is not booked-in after all...no records on his reservations done by phone!
He tried from therre to make other reservations and had many disappointments untill finally, got through to one in Kuala Lumpur, but that journey will needed later after the hearing later in the morning once the trial has ended for today.
He had to go get some decent breakfast and stayed within close proximity of the Session Courts that is best reached with a cab. Cabs are, to his amazement, much more expensive as oppose to his hometown in Penang!
With the help and friendly assistance of a DPP, she managed easy access to relevant information to give Batty a headstart and towards the precise court building/room and seated himself as close as he can but remaining discrete from the defendance bench.
The Press were present!!! But they remained to stay outside for the sole reason that the cases before the Marsdens and when the Marsdens case was brought up, he later learnt that the emphasis was far from expected for the case our Anchor man was there to cover!
There is another much more prominent case to be handled and the key defence person is a local tycoon charged with some other domestic case involved with a Supermarket chain.
Thebat$ was however confronted by some Press guys when making his exot from the courtroom. They just wanted to know if he was there and covering the local tycoon's case but when it was mentioned anout the Marsdens and the Fraud involvement, it was brushed aside as a small if not, insignificant trial. Hence, no real focus is shadowing the Marsdens at the moment, esp. when today was merely to pick up where it was last left off in January.
Batty stood around to familiarise more with the courthouse and surroundings and managed to snap a pic of the premises, from the outside view. None of the Marsdens or Defence lawyer and within the time of the hearing that the motion was carried forward to May, and again, only to re-appear and discuss/confirm the trial date in September, de****e a date was opted. In May, the September date will be confirmed eventually.
In the meantime, Batty made his way to KL, the capital of Malaysia to go check in with the hotel. Once there, again, they informed him, it is FULLY booked and no records...bla,blah, blah!!!
However he left with the assurance thhat an exception will be undertaken to get him a room after all but he'll know of it by a return call within 3 hours, giving him time to move about town and perhaps go get some grub... he didn't have the stomach to crave for Satay though... it was pouring like cats & dogs at that moment!
When we were having our hour long telco, he was at an Eating Complex and I was in another town by my side. He was quite upset about the hotel outcome, I reminded him to demand for the Reservation Booking Reference when the hotel next call him. I also wanted to know if the current funds are adequate to cover his stay and travelling untill he returns to his hometown and he believes he can manage it thriftily. Reminded him to avoid using his CC nless absolutely necessary, he understood that.
We won't publish those relevant contact nrs or details that leads to rhe various depts which Batty now has secured, fortunately. I hope MOST of you will understand the reason behind this, as there are among you, some elements who will doanything to gain such information for their own use, lurking within our forum, and is not actually serving or supporting our initiatives at all... thus, don't ask for it, it is in good, safe hands and we will treat it as such!
He then plans to make his way by a short train or taxi trip to the various Pi Inc establihments and research for more information. Snap whatever pics possible as well.
He'll make his way, after checking out of hotel and cover as much grounds before nightfall and safely make home by overnight coach again the next day, Saturday i.e.
I'll be speaking again with him as I promised to call him. As for the trip to the May hearing, we did come to the conclusion that a trip may be necessary, though a short stay is all it needs so he gets 1st hand and upfront coverage... I think, you all will agree to this too...but we shall see when that week approaches.
It was great chatting with him and trailing onto other non Pips issuestoo.
Thank you all for reading this post.
YB.:beer:
