KOTA BARU: Manohara Odelio Pinot was never abused by her husband, the Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, the Syariah High Court heard yesterday.

Tengku Azwani Tengku Iskandar, 26, said the claims made by Manohara in a newspaper report that she was abused by her husband were untrue.

"I was always with Manohara. If there was (abuse), she would have complained about it to me," she said when questioned by Tengku Muhammad Fakhry's counsel, Zainul Rijal Abu Bakar, during the hearing of the prince's suit which sought Manohara to be loyal to him.

Tengku Azwani, who is the only witness in the case, said her house was only a 10-minute walk from that of Tengku Muhammad Fakry's, who is her cousin.

She said she was close to the prince and Manohara and that the couple's relationship could be regarded as good and affectionate.

At the hearing presided by judge Mohd Yusof Awang, the court also heard a written affidavit by Tengku Muhammad Fakhry on a suit for Manohara to return RM1,112,250 which she had borrowed from him.

Mohd Yusof fixed Dec 13 for decision.

Manohara was not at the court yesterday nor was she represented.

Last Friday, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry filed his affidavit at the Syariah High Court in Kuala Lumpur for validation and to be used as evidence in the hearing of his suits at the court here yesterday.

On Nov 3, syariah lawyers Mohd Faiz Adnan and Roshdan Sujak Rafie pulled out from representing Manohara in the two cases.

Two days later, a judgment in default was made against Manohara and her mother Daisy Fajarina in a RM105mil (S$43.2 mil) suit filed by the prince at the Kuala Lumpur High Court.