Mannequin brought to inquest on Zara Qairina


Lawyers Joan Goh (left) and Datuk Ram Singh (second from right) with the mannequin before the Coroner court proceeding in Kota Kinabalu

KOTA KINABALU: A mannequin was brought Thursday (Sept 4) in to the Coroner's court hearing into the death of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir.

A legal team for one of the teenagers charged with bullying brought in the life-size mannequin to help explain the injuries found on Zara Qairina on the second day of the inquest.

The lawyer, Datuk Ram Singh had been granted permission by the coroner Amir Shah Amir Hassan to bring in the mannequin to help explain the injuries sustained by Zara.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital (HQE) pathologist Dr Jessie Hiu, who conducted the postmortem on Zara Qairina’s exhumed remains, continued giving her testimony at the Coroner's Court on Thursday (Sept 4).

Zara Qairina was found unconscious near a drain below her school’s third-floor dormitory at 4am on July 16 in Papar, Sabah.

She died the next day at Hospital Queen Elizabeth on July 17.

On Aug 20, five teenage hostel mates were charged in the Children's Court with bullying Zara.

 

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