On 22 June 1991, at Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, 12-year-old children television host Intan Yusniza Mohamad Yunos and her 56-year-old foster mother Haniza Ismail were both found robbed and murdered at their terrace house in Kampung Seri Budiman, Jalan Kuchai Lama.

[2][3] On 22 June 1991, at Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, a 12-year-old child celebrity and her foster mother were found murdered at their terrace house in Kampung Seri Budiman, Jalan Kuchai Lama.

12-year-old Intan Yusniza Mohamad Yunos, who was a popular television host for Angkasapuri Children's Club of Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RMT), was found lying motionless in a pool of blood at the living room with her 56-year-old mother Haniza Ismail.

[10][11] At the time of her death, Intan, who was then a Primary Six student of Sekolah Kebangsaan Salak Selatan, was the only child of her parents; her father was a former police officer who died of an illness three or four years prior to the double murder.

[15] Residents of Kampung Seri Budiman also gathered up some money to offer a cash reward for information to track down the killers of both Intan and Haniza.

[17] On 1 July 1991, the police got a breakthrough and managed to arrest a suspect, and announced to the public four days later that a 24-year-old unemployed neighbour of the victims was caught at Lenggeng, Negeri Sembilan on suspicion of committing the double murder.

[18][19] The suspect was detained for ten days and had his remand order extended before the police completed their investigations,[20][21] and they confirmed that Zainuzzaman would be charged with two counts of murder on a date to be decided.

[36] At the close of the prosecution's case, by the jury's majority decision of five to two, Zainuzzaman was found not guilty and therefore acquitted of the murder of Haniza Ismail.

[37] The prosecution, led by Idrus Harun, argued before the jury and trial judge that Zainuzzaman's defence, which were made up of bare denials, was ought to be rejected in view of the "strong" circumstantial evidence against him, which demonstrated his guilt of the crime.

[39] After the completion of submissions, Justice Mokhtar summed up the main points of the evidence to the jury, directing them to consider the prerequisite intention of murder, where Intan herself sustained at least two blows to the head, which resulted in injuries sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, and to remind the jury that the murder weapon was at most, possibly the pipe shown by Zainuzzaman and it was not definite whether he had used it to bludgeon Intan to death.

[40] On 17 August 1992, the date when the judge completed summing up the case and evidence, the seven-member jury, after nearly three hours of deliberation, returned with their verdict on the same day.