Cradle Fund CEO’s wife, stepsons held, to be charged with murder

Alfian Z.M. Tahir Kalidevi Mogan Kumarappa Alfian Z.M. Tahir, Kalidevi Mogan Kumarappa Updated 7 years ago · Published on 4 Mar 2019 10:13AM · 3 Comments

Nazrin Hassan was found dead after a fire at his double-storey terrace house in Mutiara Damansara on June 14, last year. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 4, 2019.

THE police have picked up Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan’s wife, Samirah Muzaffar, and her two sons this morning.

Selangor police CID chief SAC Fadzil Ahmat said the arrests were made at 6.45am and they will be charged with murder at the Petaling Jaya magistrates’ court this afternoon.

It is learnt that their maid, who has left the country, will also charged in absentia with them.

“We arrested the wife and her two teenage sons at their home this morning.

“They will be charged at the Petaling Jaya magistrates’ court,” he said in a statement.

Nazrin, 45, died in a fire in his bedroom at his Mutiara Damansara home in Petaling Jaya on June 14 last year, also Hari Raya eve.

In the first post-mortem, Kuala Lumpur Hospital pathologists concluded that he died of blast injuries after his mobile phone, which was being charged next to his bed, exploded.

Fire and Rescue Department investigators later discovered traces of petrol in the bedroom.

Police then reclassified the case as murder and questioned several family members.

Last week, a second post-mortem revealed that Nazrin died of multiple head injuries.

The Malaysian Insight also learnt that the second autopsy report revealed the victim did not sustain blast injuries to the head, as stated in the first post-mortem report. – March 4, 2019.

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  • This case would have been closed in the previous Govt's period

    Posted 7 years ago by Hemanth Kumar Arumugam · Reply

  • Need to understand also how the first autopsy was concluded. From blast injuries to no blast injuries is astounding. Was the first pathologist somehow influenced by hearsay?

    Posted 7 years ago by J R · Reply

  • What a screw up in the first autopsy.

    Posted 7 years ago by Sunita petrus · Reply