Clash over doctor’s claim


Zara Qairina

KOTA KINABALU: Conflicting accounts surfaced at the inquest into the death of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir (pic), after a forensic doctor testified that he had advised her mother to ­consent to a post-mortem ­examination, a claim her lawyers later disputed.

Seventh witness Dr Logaraj Ratha told the Coroner’s Court that he had explained the ­importance of the procedure to Zara Qairina’s mother, Noraidah Lamat, on July 17, a day after the teenager’s death.

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