Her husband's kidnapping became Malaysia's biggest mystery. Then came a stunning confession

Her husband's kidnapping became Malaysia's biggest mystery. Then came a stunning confession When Susanna Liew stepped in front of the TV cameras at Kuala Lumpur's High Court last month, she called the moment a "historic and emotional milestone". Susanna Liew has been fighting for nearly a decade to find out what happened to her husband "Today... the High Court has delivered a judgment of what we have long believed: that Pastor Raymond Koh was a victim of a grave injustice," the 69-year-old said in a shaky voice that evening. It was a hard-won but stunning legal victory in a case that became one of Malaysia's biggest mysteries. Nearly nine years earlier, her husband had been snatched by masked men in broad daylight. The abduction was captured on CCTV and gripped the nation for years. The high court ruled that the elite Special Branch of the police had taken Raymond Koh, and held both the police and the Malaysian government responsible for the country's first-ever enforced disappearance case to be heard in a court. For years Ms Liew fought to find out what happened to her husband, transforming from an ordinary pastor's wife to a fierce campaigner. She may never know for sure why her husband was taken, but two independent official investigations found that the police saw the pastor as a threat to Islam, Malaysia's majority religion. Speaking to the BBC shortly after her court victory, Ms Liew said she was driven to pursue justice. "A voice [inside me] said... 'So they took him in secret - I will let the whole world know'." On 13 February 2017, shortly after 10am, Mr Koh left his family home to meet friends. As the 63-year-old drove out of his house in a quiet Kuala Lumpur suburb, a convoy of SUVs and motorcycles roared up to his vehicle. Masked men in black clothing sprang out. Glass shards flew everywhere as they smashed a window of Mr Koh's car and dragged out the pastor. They bundled him into one of their vehicles and drove off, taking his car with them. The abduction took place in seconds. It was so dramatic that one eyewitness driving behind Mr Koh later testified that he thought it was a movie shoot. In the following days Mr Koh's children went door to door looking for clues to their father's disappearance - and discovered that two homes' CCTV cameras had captured the entire incident. Watching the footage, the family realised it was no ordinary abduction. It was meticulous and well-co-ordinated. They had also not received any ransom note or been contacted by kidnappers. A few months before, in November 2016, an activist named Amri Che Mat from the northern state of Perlis had been abducted in almost exactly the same way. Mr Koh's family went to the media, and the CCTV footage instantly went viral when it was published online by a local newspaper. The public demanded answers, and Malaysia's human rights commission - an independent body set up by...

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