SHAH ALAM – Cradle Fund chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan had a 6.8cm-deep wound track in his brain that could be interpreted as an injury resulting from the use of a hammer or archery set, the high court here was told today.
Hospital Kuala Lumpur forensic medicine consultant Dr Siew Sheue Feng told the court that the wound is listed as the first among 16 wounds and marks found on Nazrin’s body.
“The wound was 5x4cm on the outside, while the track inside the brain was 6.8cm.”
Dr Siew said according to a computerised tomography scan, the diameter of the 6.8cm-deep wound was 0.4cm.
“This (measurement) is when the brain tissue had come back to its normal state after the object (which caused the wound) was no longer there.”
He said such a wound could be interpreted with a pattern of injury resulting from using a hammer or an archery set.
“The hammer can explain the fracture in the skull, but cannot explain the track (wound) of the brain. It is unlikely to be a hammer blow, because the pattern is not consistent.”
The 46th prosecution witness was testifying in the trial of Nazrin’s widow Samirah Muzaffar, 46, along with two teenagers, now aged 16 and 19, and Indonesian Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large, who are all charged with murdering Nazrin at a house in Mutiara Damansara between 11.30pm on June 13, 2018 and 4am the following day.
During cross-examination, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah showed the witness an animation of how the fire broke in Nazrin’s room, saying that the deceased could have panicked before falling down and hitting the side of the bed.
Dr Siew said that could explain some of the patterns of injuries that he was not able to ascertain on the deceased’s body during post-mortem.
Samirah’s father, political analyst Chandra Muzaffar, was also seen in court today.
The trial before judge Datuk Ab Karim Ab Rahman will continue on March 30. – Bernama, March 23, 2021
