THE family of Nazrin Hassan have dug in for what could prove to be a long wait for answers to the Cradle Fund CEO’s murder.

Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun on Sunday expressed frustration at the delay in the results of the second post-mortem, saying without the report to go on, investigators are stalled.

“We want to expedite the investigation. Everyone is asking for updates on the case,” he said.

One could do nothing at such a time except to “just be patient and wait for the report”, he said.

The dead man’s relatives, dissatisfied at the lack of progress on the case, told The Malaysian Insight they have been kept in the dark on the latest developments.

Nazrin’s brother, Dr Aziz Hassan, said they were not giving up hope for answers.

“Things are quiet at the moment. We have not received any news of the second autopsy from the cops or from the hospital,” Aziz said.

“We were told that the report would be classified and only the police will have access to it. But, of course, we want to know what really happened to Nazrin,” he said.

Aziz said he was informed that the case had been assigned to the Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department. It was previously under the purview of the Petaling Jaya district police headquarters.

Nazrin was found dead at home in Mutiara Damansara in June last year. Injuries were found on the head and burns on the upper body.

The first post-mortem conducted at Kuala Lumpur Hospital concluded death was due to injuries inflicted by the explosion of Nazrin’s handphone, which had been charging next to the bed.

The case was reclassified as murder after Fire and Rescue Department experts found traces of petrol on the body. 

Police subsequently arrested several people, including the widow, Samirah Muzaffar, her two teenage sons from a previous marriage, her ex-husband, her sister and brother-in-low.

All have since been released on bail.

Nazrin’s other brother, Dr Malek Hassan, meanwhile, had applied to the courts for a second post-mortem after finding the results of the first to be unsatisfactory.

The application was approved and the body exhumed last October for another examination at University Malaya Medical Centre, the delay in the results of which is now the cause of the family’s frustration.

Nazrin’s elder sister Elainee Hassan told The Malaysian Insight that the first few months following his death were hard on the family, especially on his child, Nashwan, who is seven.

Nashwan is the son from his second marriage who lives with his mother after the divorce.

Elainee said Nashwan was to have gone Hari Raya shopping with Nazrin on the day he was murdered.

“He thinks his father died in a fire,” she said.

“The first two months were the hardest us. Thank God we are slowly learning to cope.”

Asked if she was still in contact with Samirah, Elainee said they had not been on speaking terms since Nazrin’s death.

“She did not answer my messages when I asked her what had happened.

“Before the murder probe, Samirah told us that she was not aware there was a fire in the master bedroom upstairs. She said she was downstairs with the children.

“Nazrin didn’t talk about his marriage to me. So, I don’t know how their relationship was.” – January 8, 2019.