A BAG of firecrackers was discovered in the room where the body of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan was found, a fireman testified during the trial for Nazrin’s murder today.

Stanley Sigau Nyalang told Shah Alam High Court that he suspected the bed and the wall behind the bedframe were set alight using firecrackers.

“We were dispatched to the house on September 14. After the fire was put out, I entered the room as I was the officer in charge of rescue,” said Stanley, the 8th witness in the trial.

“I found a plastic bag full of firecrackers in the room just next to the television cabinet.

“I then saw burn marks on the wall behind the bedframe and the bed was completely burnt, as if it was torched using firecrackers.

However, I could not determine if it was actually caused by the flammable item.”

Reading from his witness statement, the fireman also said he saw Nazrin’s body lying on the floor in the room with fresh blood still visible on his head.

He was later instructed by his senior officer not to touch the body.

“After we cleared the smoke, I saw a body only in underpants on the floor.

I saw a hole in his head like it was smashed with an object but I could not be sure. The hole was around 3cm deep.

“The face, chest and right leg were badly burnt,” he added.

A forensic team from the Fire and Rescue department later came and took over the crime scene for investigation, he said.

The 44-year-old widow, Samirah Muzaffar and her two teenage sons, are accused of killing the 46-year-old Nazrin, who was found dead in on June 14 last year in his bedroom at home in Mutiara Damansara.

Their maid, an Indonesian named Eka Wahyu Lestari, is also among the murder accused and is still at large.

Police had concluded that Nazrin had died because his phone had exploded next to him but the case was reclassified as murder after traces of petrol were found in the room.

An exhumation that the widow had attempted to block and a second post-mortem later revealed that Nazrin had suffered a wound in the head that did not look to have been caused by a phone blast.

The trial resumes tomorrow. – October 3, 2019.