FORENSIC expert Dr Ahmad Hafizam Hasmi today told the coroner’s court that he could not pinpoint the object that could have injured fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim
 
The Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) pathologist told the court that experts like him sometimes had to work blind when there were no witnesses to help with identification.

He said he said injury marks on Adib but could not associate them with a specific object.

“Based on my experiment and another expert Prof Dr Shahrom Abd Wahid’s experiment, Adib’s injuries were not specifically (inflicted by) the left door of the emergency medical rescue services (EMRS) vehicle,” he said at the Shah Alam High Court.

Hafizam was responding to Adib’s family lawyer Kamaruzaman A. Wahab who had asked him about the bruises on Adib.

Hafizam said he did not see bruises when he conducted the post mortem on Adib.

“The intradermal bruises would have surfaced days after the incident. 

“I can only say that it could have happened when he hit the door and fell on a hard, wide, blunt, and rough surface.

“The injury marks were consistent with him falling in front and not on the back.”

Kamaruzaman then questioned Hafizam on his conclusion that  Adib could have exited the vehicle himself or he could have been pulled out.

“Do you stand by your report that he came out by himself or was pulled out?”

Hafizan said based on what the testimonies and his experiments told him, Adib was not pulled out.

“The victim exited from the EMRS (vehicle) himself and this is based on the (accounts of the) witnesses and further evidence (experiments).

“There is no evidence to show that he was pulled out.”

Kamaruzaman then asked him what he meant in his report about the EMRS vehicle being in the “danger zone”.

“Why did Adib exit the vehicle if that was a danger zone?

Hafizam said he did not want to guess why Adib left the vehicle.

“I don’t want to speculate but based on the evidence (from the experiments) he wen† out (of the vehicle).”

Adib, who was Subang Jaya Fire and Rescue EMRS personnel, sustained injuries in a riot at the Sri Maha Mariamman temple in USJ 25, Subang Jaya on November 27, 2018.

He later died on December 17 at the National Heart Institute.

The inquest conducted by coroner Rofiah Mohamad resumes to tomorrow. – May 15, 2019.