KOTA KINABALU: A child witness told the Coroner’s Court that 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir once expressed her wish to become a badar (religious prefect) at her school, but her private note about this aspiration was mocked by fellow students shortly before her death.
Testifying at the inquest into Zara Qairina’s death, the second child witness, Student B, said the note, referred to in court as her “privacy letter”, was read aloud and ridiculed by several students during a confrontation in the dormitory on the night of July 15.
