DEEP WOUND FOUND IN NAZRIN’S HEAD
It may have been caused by hammer or arrow from an archery set, says forensic consultant
THERE was a penetrating injury as deep as 6.8cm on the head of Cradle Fund chief executive officer (CEO) Nazrin Hassan, which may have been caused by a hammer or arrow from an archery set, the High Court here heard yesterday.
Forensic consultant from the Kuala Lumpur Hospital Dr Siew Sheue Feng, 50, said he was, however, unable to determine precisely what caused the injury.
“This is based on the postmortem.
“I don’t have information on how it happened,” he said.
Dr Siew was testifying in the trial of Nazrin’s widow Samirah Muzaffar, 48, two teenage boys as well as Indonesian maid Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large, for the murder of Nazrin, who was found dead during a fire at his home in 2018.
Under examination-in-chief by deputy public prosecutor Tengku Intan Suraya Tengku Ismail, the 46th prosecution witness said the external wound on Nazrin’s head measured 5x4cm and that the penetrating wound was 6.8cm deep inside the brain.
He was referring to the wound on the left side of Nazrin’s head out of the 16 injury marks that were found on the latter’s body.
During cross-examination by Samirah’s counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, Dr Siew said he had sought for an explanation on the pattern of Nazrin’s injury, and that the police had brought to him a hammer and an archery set for him to compare with the pattern of the wound.
“I said the hammer may explain the fracture on the head, but not the injury inside the brain.”
During the proceeding yesterday, the defence also played an animation of what they assumed might have happened during Nazrin’s death.
It showed how Nazrin’s head had hit the corner of his bed as a result of being stunned by a blast while he was sleeping.
“You see, because the head was hit on one side.
“We are saying that the blast would have stunned him when he was sleeping and he would have been in confusion,” Shafee said.
On Monday, Dr Siew testified that Nazrin was dead before the fire broke out at his home.
Dr Siew, who conducted the post-mortem on Nazrin at 5pm on June 14, 2018, said there was no soot in the victim’s trachea and deeper air passage, and the absence of soot injury and inflammation showed that the victim did not breathe in hot air.
The trial continues on March 30 before judge Datuk Ab Karim Ab Rahman.