Witness In Ebit Lew's Trial Claims The Preacher Asked Victim To Show Him Her Legs
The witness claimed that he saw WhatsApp messages from Ustaz Ebit Lew where he sent photos of male genitalia to the victim and encouraged her to ask her husband to divorce her.
By Sadho Ram — 20 Dec 2022, 04:23 PM — Updated over 1 year ago
The sexual harassment trial involving Ebit Irawan Ibrahim Lew, a celebrity preacher known as Ustaz Ebit Lew, is underway at the Tenom magistrate's court after the hearing was postponed in September
Testifying at the trial today, 20 December, independent preacher Firdaus Wong Wai Hung told the Tenom magistrate's court in Sabah that he has seen several messages and obscene photographs on the mobile phone of a woman who claimed that Ebit allegedly sent her lewd texts and photos of male genitalia.
According to Firdaus, he saw the incriminating materials when he met the victim along with her husband after making a police report on 7 August last year, reported Harian Metro.
"Show me a bit of your legs"
Firdaus claimed that Ebit had tried to get the victim to make her husband divorce her.
"Among the messages was a voice message from Ebit Lew to the victim, which read 'show a little leg, show a little leg'. There was also a WhatsApp text that read 'ask your husband to divorce you, I'll pay you'," he said in response to deputy public prosecutor Zahida Zakaria's question during today's proceedings.
He also said that he saw a photo of a man's genitalia that was sent between the victim and Ebit.
"I also saw pictures of a man's private parts in the conversation between the victim and Ebit," Berita Harian quoted Firdaus as saying before Magistrate Nur Asyraf Zolhani.
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