Selvi Sandrasegaram, one of the lawyers for Siti, said Raja spent more than an hour showing VX-tainted evidence from a small room inside the laboratory at the chemist department. The trial was originally due to resume after lunch at the court building but the judge deferred it after Raja complained he was exhausted, Selvi said. Raja will be cross-examined by defence lawyers when the trial resumes Tuesday. The two women pleaded not guilty at the start of their trial last week to charges of murder that carry a mandatory death sentence if they are convicted. VX is banned by an international treaty as a weapon of mass destruction but is believed to be part of North Korea’s chemical weapons arsenal.

Source: National Post October 09, 2017 00:39 UTC