Cradle CEO’s remains to be exhumed for second post-mortem (Updated)

Nazrin:

PETALING JAYA: The remains of Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan will be exhumed for a second post-mortem, said police.

Selangor CID chief Senior Asst Comm Fadzil Ahmat said that the brother of the deceased had lodged a police report on Sept 24, saying that he was unhappy with the post-mortem results by the Hospital Kuala Lumpur pathology department.

"Following this police report, we discussed it with the state prosecution director to exhume the remains for a second post-mortem," he said in a statement on Monday (Oct 1).

He added that application to exhume the body was made to the Petaling Jaya magistrate court on Friday (Sept 28), and the application was granted on Monday.

"The remains will now be exhumed and a second post-mortem is scheduled for Oct 8.

Several of Nazrin’s family members were seen present at the courts on Monday.

Nazrin, who died in a fire at his home on June 14, was found with 30% burns to his body at the upper floor of his double-storey house.

The police had reclassified the case as murder following a forensic investigation by the Fire and Rescue Department.

Several people have since been remanded and released in the murder investigation, including Nazrin’s wife and her ex-husband, a married couple related to his widow, and two teenage schoolboys.