VictimAnthony Kevin Morais
Deputy public prosecutor who was reported missing on 4 September 2015.
REAL CASE · COURT-CONCLUDED
Kevin Morais: six convictions, three final acquittals
A source-led reconstruction of the 2015 abduction and murder of deputy public prosecutor Anthony Kevin Morais, the six High Court convictions, the Court of Appeal decision, the Federal Court split outcome in 2025 and R. Kunaseegaran's failed review in 2026.
MalaysiaKuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya, Putrajaya & Perak, Malaysia4 Sep 2015–31 Jul 2026Concluded conviction appeals · review decided
INTERACTIVE CASE RECONSTRUCTION
Kevin Morais: six convictions, three final acquittals
Kuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya, Putrajaya & Perak, Malaysia · 4 Sep 2015–31 Jul 2026
Concluded conviction appeals · review decided
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4 Sep 2015Confirmed
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Kevin Morais is reported missing
Morais was last seen leaving his Menara Duta home for work in Putrajaya. The case was initially treated as an abduction before later becoming a murder investigation.
WHAT INVESTIGATORS KNEW AT THIS POINTInvestigators can only rely on the material revealed up to this point in the chronology.
0evidence items revealed1people / roles in view1source record attached1location established
CASE SNAPSHOT
The case in one view.
This summary always shows the latest overall state of the case. It does not change when the chronology above moves.
A three-member Federal Court bench unanimously dismissed Kunaseegaran's application to review the earlier apex-court decision. His conviction and death sentence remained.
APPEAL · 31 Jul 2026Kunaseegaran's review application dismissed
Locations and movements represented in the full case record.
Menara Duta / Jalan DutamasDeparture / abduction area
USJ 1, Subang JayaOffence / body-recovery area
Hutan Melintang, PerakVehicle evidence area
Kuala Lumpur High CourtTrial court
Putrajaya courtsAppellate courts
ReportedMenara Duta / Jalan Dutamas → USJ 1, Subang Jaya
The main people and material needed to understand the case.
Legal noteArrest ≠ charge. Charge ≠ conviction. Person labels above use the latest source-supported status.
What remains unresolved?
- Which full-text High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court judgments can be added as primary legal records?
- Which evidentiary findings specifically distinguished the three acquitted appellants from the three whose convictions remained?
- Which prosecution exhibits can be represented individually without overstating what each exhibit proved?
How PulseKita handles a case.
- Each accused receives an independent legal-status trail; one person's conviction is never treated as evidence of another person's guilt.
- The 2025 Federal Court decision replaces the earlier convicted status for the three acquitted appellants.
- Kunaseegaran's 2026 Rule 137 proceeding is represented as a review application, not a fresh trial.
- Location movement is schematic and sourced from court reporting; PulseKita does not invent an exact abduction route.
- Graphic details are omitted unless needed to explain an evidentiary or legal development.
WAS THIS CASE UNUSUAL?
Put the case beside the wider Malaysian numbers.
The case itself is established by its own evidence and court record. These datasets provide scale and context only; they do not explain motive, guilt or causation.
TIME-PERIOD WARNING
This case spans 4 Sep 2015–31 Jul 2026. Some comparison series below describe more recent Malaysia-wide conditions because a directly comparable historical series is not available. PulseKita does not treat modern figures as if they were the rate at the time of the case.
How has lethal violence changed?
PulseKita keeps the crime-index murder count separate from the SDG intentional-homicide rate because the definitions and units are not interchangeable.
Open-data murder seriescases
2016456
2017379
2018323
2019310
2020253
2021243
2022240
2023258
data.gov's crime_district series describes actual crimes where an offender was convicted. Keep it separate from newer investigation-paper counts.
Crime-index murder casescases
2022240
2023258
2024236
Crime-index murder is a PDRM crime-index series. Do not splice it into the SDG intentional-homicide rate series.
Intentional homicide, ICCScases
2024237
The 2024 ICCS intentional-homicide count is shown as a separate snapshot because the open SDG rate series currently ends in 2022. The 2024 crime-index murder count is 236, while ICCS intentional homicide is 237; the two statistical concepts must remain separate.
COMPARISON CAVEAT
Explore full homicide / murder data →Definitions changed across statistical products. PulseKita must label crime-index murder, ICCS homicide and SDG homicide rate separately.
Acts against liberty and abduction of minors
The latest DOSM/PDRM table separates all acts against liberty from abduction of a minor, avoiding the misleading use of one generic kidnapping label.
Acts against libertycases
202235
202318
202419
Abduction of a minorcases
202229
202313
202410
ICCS kidnapping snapshotcases
202417
DOSM's 2025 ICCS release reports 17 kidnapping cases in 2024, including 11 involving children. Keep this snapshot separate from the broader acts-against-liberty series.
COMPARISON CAVEAT
Explore full kidnapping / liberty data →Acts against liberty is broader than child abduction. The two series must not be presented as synonyms.