THE second post-mortem on Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan will be carried out at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), police said today.

UMMC’s pathologists will conduct the autopsy in the presence of an independent pathologist, sources told The Malaysian Insight.

Selangor police chief Mazlan Mansor said Nazrin’s remains were treated with utmost respect during the exhumation today, as demanded by his widow Samirah Muzzafar.

“All parties involved in the exhumation treated the body with the utmost respect,” the police chief said.

The second post-mortem, he said, will be conducted soon but could not say when it will be completed.

The exhumation started at 9am today and it took more than three hours before a hearse carrying the remains left the Kota Damansara Muslim cemetery.

Apart from the police, several other agencies, such as the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais), were also present.

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

His family had said that his handphone had exploded, causing the blaze. Cradle Fund also issued a statement saying its CEO was dead of injuries attributed to an exploding handphone being charged next to the bed.

Nazrin’s older brother, Dr Malek Hassan, who saw Nazrin’s body after the first post-mortem, had told The Malaysian Insight that he had 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.

That observation, and with police classifying the case as murder, prompted Malek to lodge a police report, urging the authorities to exhume the body for a second autopsy.

In the course of the investigations so far, police have 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 for investigations. All are on the widow’s side of the family.

All have since been released on bail. – October 8, 2018.