E-hailing driver pleads not guilty to attempted murder of woman in Kepong fire attack

In a Kuala Lumpur courtroom, a 58-year-old e-hailing driver entered a plea of not guilty to one of the law's gravest charges — attempted murder by fire — accused of dousing a 62-year-old woman with petrol and setting her alight outside a Kepong betting shop on an August morning. The case places two enduring human tensions before the court: the severity of harm visited upon a vulnerable person, and the presumption of innocence that the legal order extends even to those accused of the most violent acts. With bail granted and a September mention date set, the slow machinery of justice has begun i