SHAH ALAM: Following the discovery of her husband’s body on June 14 last year, murder accused Samirah Muzaffar took a set of spare keys and an unspecified amount of foreign currency from the room where his body was found.
A former policewoman testified that Samirah took the foreign currency and spare keys from the top drawer of a cabinet which was in front of a burnt bed in the room where the body of Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Nazrin Hassan was discovered.
Nur Ronal Ardes Amir, a former corporal from the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters Mobile Patrol Vehicle unit, said she accompanied Samirah into the room after arriving at the scene at about 12.35pm.
She said Samirah then placed the keys and foreign currency in a bag before leaving the room.
Ronal said Samirah also knelt on the right side of Nazrin’s head for about 10 minutes.
“She moved her body back and forth, but I did not hear if she said anything or cried,” she said.
Ronal said Samirah then went to take a look at two other rooms upstairs and lamented that the house was in a mess.
“She also lamented that she had to do everything on her own because she does not have a maid.”
Ronal earlier testified that Samirah’s fingers had dried blood on it.
“I asked if she was okay. She said it was a small matter and she might have hurt herself when she tried to open the room door.
“She did not look sad... she looked restless, as she wanted to go to the burnt room upstairs, but was barred by the firemen as the smoke was too thick,” added Ronal.
Earlier, another witness changed his testimony and said it was not wounds but gashes that he saw on Nazrin’s head after the body was found.
Stanley Nigau Nyalang, who was one of the first to see Nazrin’s body in the burnt room, said he wanted to correct what he had said in his witness statement.
The fireman, who is attached to the Damansara Fire and Rescue Department, altered his statement in court when questioned by deputy public prosecutor Wan Shahida Wan Omar.
Stanley said he did not touch the gashes or Nazrin’s body in the two minutes he spent in the room with his superior, Tan Hoss Bah Agem and another colleague, Muhammad Rezza Rusli.
Later, when cross examined by lead defence counsel Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, Stanley said the gashes were similar to what one would suffer when beaten.
However, he agreed with Shafee that this was just an assumption as he had no training in forensics.
Stanley also replied in the affirmative when Shafee asked if Nazrin could have fallen and sustained the gashes.
Samirah and two boys, aged 14 and 17, were charged with Nazrin’s murder in March this year.
Also charged was the family’s Indonesian maid Eka Wahyu Lestari, who is still at large.
The trial will resume on Nov 8.