AG's website posts videos of Teoh inquest
If the widespread coverage of the coroner’s inquest into Teoh Beng Hock’s death was not enough, Internet users can now scrutinise every detail of the proceedings online.
If the widespread coverage of the coroner’s inquest into Teoh Beng Hock’s death was not enough, Internet users can now scrutinise every detail of the proceedings online.
In a rare move, the Attorney-General’s Chambers have so far posted video clips of the first three days of the inquest on its website.
On July 29 - the first day of the inquest - acting coroner and magistrate Azmil Munstapha Abas had informed participating lawyers that the entire proceedings would be recorded.
Notes of proceedings are also to be provided to the various legal teams the following day. These notes too 
are available online.
Links to the video and notes appear in a dedicated page of the AG’s Chamber’s website.
ccording to some Internet users, the videos were made available online about four hours after each adjournment at the end of the day.
However, Internet users must extremely patient in waiting for the large video files to be downloaded, despite that they are split into two or three parts.
It is likely that the website's servers do not have the necessary bandwidth to handle the demand for such downloads.
Unprecedented move
It is believed that this is the first time video recordings of a court proceeding is made public. Under normal circumstances, any form of audio or visual recording of court proceedings are prohibited.
Even major cases such as the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder trial and the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the ‘Lingam Tape’ were not recorded on video.
The AG’s Chambers website also provides two documents which explains the function of a coroner’s inquest.
The inquest hearing will continue on Monday where three government pathologists are scheduled to take the stand.
On July 16, political aide Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor landing of Plaza Masalam, nine floors below the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office where he was interrogated just hours before.
