Cradle Fund Ceo S Room Reconstructed After Petrol Traces Found Says Witness

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Selangor JBPM fire investigations officer Abdul Halim Zulkefeli. (Bernama pic)SHAH ALAM: A witness in the murder trial of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan told the High Court yesterday that he was ordered to reconstruct the crime scene after the Selangor fire and rescue department (JBPM) investigation laboratory found traces of petrol in samples sent for analysis
Selangor JBPM fire investigations officer Abdul Halim Zulkefeli, who is the 15th witness, said the Blackberry handphone found on the mattress and another Huawei handphone found at the foot of the left bedpost had been in good condition
“The observations and inspections by JBPM fire investigations division deputy director Edwin Galan Teruki revealed that the Blackberry was not shattered or curved
“This shows that there was no evidence of an explosion on the handphone, and an X-ray done on the handphone also showed that its structure was in good condition
“My inspection of the Huawei handphone also found it to be in good condition and there were no signs of an explosion,” he said when questioned by Selangor prosecution director Salim Soib @ Hamid before justice Ab Karim Ab Rahman
Halim said as a result of the findings, he was asked to reconstruct the room where the incident occurred
“On Sept 19, 2018, together with police officer ASP Mohd Nizam, I went to the scene of the incident to reconstruct it, to identify the cause of the fire
“Through this reconstruction process, I found that the fire was caused by an act of arson as the traces from the fire showed that it was triggered intentionally
“This took into account the evidence of multiple fires found on the right side of the mattress, both sides of the bed and the victim’s head. No traces of explosion were found on either of the handphones found at the scene of the incident
“There were traces of petrol on the victim’s head and the bed headboard, and there were also injuries on the victim’s face and left shoulder, and a hole in his head,” he said
On March 12, Samirah, 44, a former senior executive at the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia, and two teenagers, aged 17 and 14, were charged along with Indonesian citizen Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large, with Nazrin’s murder
They are alleged to have committed the offence at a house in Mutiara Homes, Mutiara Damansara, between 11.30pm on June 13, 2018 and 4am on June 14, 2018
They were charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code read together with Section 34 of the same act. - FMT

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