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Tenom: A woman testified in the magistrates’ court here today that she did not give the police the mobile phone she used to record a video call with Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, also known as Ebit Lew.

The ninth prosecution witness, in her 40s, who is the complainant in the sexual harassment case against the preacher, said the phone was used at home by her husband and she could not recall the number because it was no longer active.

During cross-examination by Ebit’s lawyer, Ram Singh, the witness said she received a video call from Ebit on the evening of July 10, 2021, on another mobile phone she owned. She then used the home phone to record the call.

Ram: Just now you testified that you were using two phones during the video call, correct?

Witness: Yes, but it wasn’t my phone (the phone used to record the video call).

The woman testified that the video call was the first she had recorded and that she did so without the accused’s knowledge, before blocking Ebit’s phone number on July 11, 2021.

However, she told the court the phone used for the video call was handed over to the police on Aug 7, 2021, as it contained the recorded video.

Ebit, 38, faces 11 charges, including outraging the modesty of a woman in her 40s by sending obscene messages to her phone via WhatsApp between March and June 2021.

He is charged under Section 509 of the Penal Code, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine, or both, upon conviction.

The trial before magistrate Nur Asyraf Zolhani continues today.