THE widow of murdered Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan has appealed to the Shah Alam High Court to stop the exhumation of her husband’s remains for a second post-mortem.

Samirah Muzaffar made the application this afternoon after the Petaling Jaya magistrates’ court on Monday granted an application by the police to exhume the remains.

The application was made by the police after Nazrin’s brother, Dr Malek Hassan, lodged a report, urging the authorities to conduct a second post-mortem, alleging that the findings of the first autopsy were flawed.

Nazrin was found dead after his bedroom at a double-storey terrace house in Mutiara Damansara caught fire on June 14, a day before Hari Raya.

His family previously said his handphone had exploded, causing the blaze. Cradle Fund also issued a statement, saying its CEO died from blast injuries attributed to an exploding handphone being charged next to the bed.

Malek, who saw Nazrin’s body after the first post-mortem, told The Malaysian Insight he noticed a wound on the left side of the head that was too big and deep to have been caused by a blunt object like a handphone.

“The injury to Nazrin’s head could only have been caused by a sharp object, as the wound was deep,” Malek said.

Malek said he wants a second post-mortem so that the family can find out the truth about Nazrin’s murder.

Police arrested Samirah, a senior executive at the Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation, her former husband, their two teenage sons, Nazrin’s sister-in-law and her husband. They have been released on bail.

All the suspects are from the widow’s side of the family. – October 4, 2018.