PETALING JAYA, Sept. 23 -- The Shah Alam High Court rejected claims that the 16-year-old schoolgirl's murder in Bandar Utama last year was planned for months, finding that the accused's psychotic illness impaired his understanding of the act and that the alleged "plan" stemmed from his delusions.

In her full written grounds, Judge Adlin Abdul Majid said she could not accept that merely knowing he was pushing a knife into the deceased's abdomen and that it would cause her to bleed was sufficient to establish that the accused understood the nature of the act.

She added that an accused who has knowledge of the mechanics but not of the reality of what he is doing cannot be said to know the nature of the act.

"The nature of an act of homici...