<figure id="attachment_3241681" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3241681" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3241681 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/7396e797-zaim-ikhwan-zahari-231225-1.webp" alt="zaim ikhwan zahari" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3241681" class="wp-caption-text">The Petaling Jaya sessions court ruled in July last year that the prosecution did not have enough evidence to require Zaim Ikhwan Zahari to enter his defence.</figcaption></figure>
<p>PETALING JAYA: Zaim Ikhwan Zahari, the father of the late Zayn Rayyan Abdul Matin, will remain a free man following the prosecution&#8217;s withdrawal of its appeal against his acquittal.</p>
<p>Kosmo reported lawyer Haresh Mahadevan as saying the appeal was against a Petaling Jaya sessions court ruling on July 21, 2025, clearing Zaim of a charge of child neglect.</p>
<p>The sessions court had ruled that the prosecution did not have enough evidence to require Zaim, 31, to enter his defence.</p>
<p>Zaim’s wife, Ismanira Abdul Manaf, 31, remains in prison after the Shah Alam High Court rejected her request on Dec 23 last year to stay her five-year prison term for child neglect.</p>
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<p>The High Court ruled that Ismanira’s act of allowing the boy to walk behind her without sufficient supervision had led to his disappearance and eventual death.</p>
<p>Both Ismanira and Zaim were charged in 2024 with neglecting Zayn in a manner likely to cause him physical harm.</p>


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Zayn Rayyan’s father remains a free man

Prosecutors have withdrawn their appeal against a court decision clearing Zaim Ikhwan Zahari of child neglect.

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