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The Attorney General's Chambers (AGC) has filed an appeal against the acquittal of the 15-year-old teenager who fatally stabbed his schoolmate at a Bandar Utama school in October last year
In a statement today, 24 September, the AGC said it filed the notice of appeal at the Court of Appeal on 22 September, eight days after Shah Alam High Court judge Adlin Abdul Majid acquitted and discharged the teenager.
The appeal challenges the court's decision to acquit the boy, identified as L, of the murder charge after finding that he was of unsound mind when the offence was committed.
The teenager had been charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code over the death of his 16-year-old schoolmate, Yap Shing Xuen, in the SMK Bandar Utama Damansara (4) school's female students' toilet between 9.20am and 9.35am on 14 October 2025.
The AGC said it decided to appeal after considering the High Court judge's decision, the full written grounds of which were released yesterday, 23 September.
The boy remains at Hospital Bahagia
Although the teenager was acquitted of the murder charge, Adlin ordered him to be detained and undergo treatment at Hospital Bahagia Ulu Kinta in Perak at the pleasure of the Sultan of Selangor.
The High Court's 77-page grounds of judgment detailed the psychiatric evidence behind the decision. Adlin found that the teenager's psychotic illness had deprived him of the capacity to understand the nature of his act at the time of the killing.
The judge accepted evidence that he was suffering from very early-onset schizophrenia and had experienced severe psychotic symptoms for years without receiving medical treatment.
The Court of Appeal will now hear the AGC's challenge to the acquittal.
Meanwhile, the victim's mother says the family finally has 'an opportunity'
The victim's mother, Wong Lee Ping, who is also known as Aapple Wong, welcomed news of the appeal in a Facebook post earlier today.
She thanked people who had supported the family by sharing posts, signing petitions, and submitting requests for an appeal following the High Court's decision.
"Today, the appeal process has officially begun," she wrote.
Wong said the family could not predict the final outcome but viewed the appeal as an opportunity for the case to be "carefully re-examined".
"As a mother, all I can do is keep pushing forward for my daughter," she wrote.
She also said she hoped the facts and evidence would receive "full, thorough, and fair scrutiny" as the case moves forward.
The teenager was 14 when the fatal stabbing occurred and is now 15. Under Section 97(1) of the Child Act 2001, the death penalty cannot be imposed on a person who was below 18 when the offence was committed.
