THE coroner’s court should refer to the CT scan from Subang Jaya Medical Centre if it wants to discuss Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim’s injuries, retired forensic expert Prof Dr Shahrom Abd Wahid said today.

Dr Shahrom said the CT scan from SJMC was vital as it was the first medical assessment conducted on Adib.

“Refer SJMC CT scan report rather than the CT scan from Kuala Lumpur Hospital right before the post-mortem. Because the SJMC report shows what sort of injuries sustained by Adib right after the riot.

“If you look at the post-mortem result from HKL, there is already signs of treatment. There was interference,” he said during an inquest to determine how the firefighter got injured during the riots at the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple, Subang Jaya, on the night of November 26-27. Adib died of those injuries on December 17.

Dr Shahrom said there is no point to talk in detail about how Adib broke his ribs and it was important to know what happened that night.

“To ask me about his broken ribs from his front and back body is not relevant. Not relevant to go deeper. What is important we need to know what happened that night,” he added.

Dr Shahrom reiterated today that Adib’s ribs broke due to severe outside forces.

“In this case, I think there needs to be 3,300 newtons of force (to break Adib’s ribs),” he said.

Yesterday, Dr Shahrom said Adib was assaulted by more than one man during the riots.

He did not examine Adib’s body but reached the conclusion after studying videos, pictures of injuries as well as going through witness statements.

Dr Shahrom, who had conducted many autopsies on unnatural deaths, said Adib sustained broken ribs after the attackers had slammed the door of the Emergency Medical Rescue Service (EMRS) vehicle against his body with severe force.

His assessment differed from the conclusions of Kuala Lumpur Hospital pathologists Dr Mohd Shah Mahmood and Dr Ahmad Hafizam Hasmi.

Both doctors testified that the injuries sustained by Adib were not consistent with someone who was attacked. 

Dr Shahrom said Adib could not have been injured if there was no outside force.

Adib was part of a response team sent from the Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue Department station on November 27, to the temple to respond to a call that cars there had been set on fire.

He suffered injuries during the incident and died at the National Heart Institute on December 17. – April 10, 2019.