Zara Qairina inquest: Lawyers for her mother seeks to call own psychiatric expert after forensic report points to suicide

KOTA KINABALU, April 4 — The authorized group representing the mom of the late Zara Qairina Mahathir plans to name their very own psychiatric professional witness to supply a extra balanced analysis in the course of the ongoing inquest.

This comes after forensic psychiatrist Dr Chua Sze Hung advised the Coroner’s Courtroom yesterday that the circumstances surrounding the 13-year-old Zara Qairina’s loss of life had been most in step with suicide.

“You will need to stress that the Coroner’s Courtroom is the authority tasked with assessing all testimony and making findings primarily based on all proof offered all through this inquest.

“Due to this fact, any preliminary conclusions drawn from the testimony thus far are inappropriate and threat deceptive public notion concerning the ongoing proceedings,” the group was quoted by Berita Harian as saying in a joint assertion immediately.

They added that the 84-page psychiatric report by Dr Chua, among the many testimonies and experiences offered thus far, shaped solely a part of the proof and has not but been absolutely examined in courtroom.

In addition they famous that quite a lot of different witnesses, together with character witnesses accustomed to Zara Qairina, have but to testify.

“You will need to emphasise that the Coroner’s Courtroom is the authority answerable for evaluating all of the proof and making findings primarily based on the whole lot of what’s offered in the course of the inquest,” the group added.

The attorneys pressured that the general public ought to train warning when commenting on the case, as speculative remarks might add to the household’s emotional burden.

They stated Zara Qairina’s mom, Noraidah Lamat, is intently following the proceedings to make sure that the reality is set by the courtroom.

In his testimony, Dr Chua who’s from Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang right here was reported to have stated that Zara Qairina displayed extra dominant threat elements for suicide than protecting elements on the time of the incident.

The 67th witness stated he had ready, signed, and stamped an 84-page psychiatric report dated February 2 for the courtroom, specializing in the probability of suicide and the circumstances regarding the 13-year-old woman.

Among the many supplies and paperwork reviewed had been Zara Qairina’s diary; the placement of the incident; the post-mortem report by consulting forensic pathologist Dr Jessie Hiu; counseling experiences; visits to Zara Qairina’s dormitory; and interviews with relations, workers of SMK Agama Tun Datu Mustapha, and the sufferer’s major faculty.

The knowledge indicated emotional disturbances, excessive anger, self-harming habits, unstable interpersonal relationships, and concern of being deserted.

However Dr Chua was additionally reported saying that these supplies thus far had been inadequate to make a retrospective analysis of a persona dysfunction.

The inquest is scheduled to renew from April 13 to 17.