KOTA KINABALU: The Coroner’s Court has granted permission to the lawyers of five teenagers charged with bullying to participate as interested parties in the inquest into the death of Zara Qairina Mahathir on Wednesday (Sept 3).
Coroner Amir Shah Amir Hassan accepted the applications by the two legal teams defending the teen as well as the Education Ministry to be interested parties in the inquest.
Sabah Law Society was accepted for its watching brief application.
Zara Qairina, 13, was found unconscious at a drain at 4am on July 16 near her school hostel in Papar, Sabah.
She was later pronounced dead at Hospital Queen Elizabeth on July 17.
On Aug 20, five teenagers were charged with bullying Zara Qairina in the Kota Kinabalu Juvenile Court.
