Ex-envoy denies black magic defecation

A Malaysian man said it did not occur to him to cover his nakedness when he entered a woman’s house after defecating on her doorstep.

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Wellington - A Malaysian man said it did not occur to him to cover his nakedness when he entered a New Zealand woman’s house after defecating on her doorstep, in a court hearing on Friday over sexual assault charges.

The former military attache told the High Court in Wellington he entered the house naked from the waist down to clean himself up, TV3news reported.

Crown Prosecutor Grant Burston asked him whether the “emergency defecation” and trouser removal were part of a black magic ritual to make the victim fall in love with him, which the accused denied.

Muhammad Rizalman, 39, claimed diplomatic immunity and left New Zealand after being arrested in May 2014.

He was returned to the country in October last year to face the charges.

The High Court was hearing evidence from Rizalman because he disputes the facts laid out in a police summary of the case.

According to the summary, victim Tania Billingsley, then 21, was alone in the bedroom of her Wellington home watching a movie when Rizalman entered the room naked from the waist down.

Billingsley screamed at him to leave, pushed him from the house, and called the police.

He said he thought she smiled at him at a local supermarket and appeared to invite him to make contact, which is why he followed her home, the TV3news report said.

“I expected her to maybe go in and prepare some food and invite me in and then go in and talk about my problems,” it quoted Rizalman as saying.

Rizalman entered a guilty plea to the charge of indecent assault on Monday.

Further charges of burglary and assault with intent to commit sexual violation were dismissed.

DPA