AN “uneasy looking” Samirah Muzaffar, the first accused in the murder trial of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan, made several requests to the police to enter the crime scene after a fire had been put out there, a witness told the Shah Alam High Court.

Responding to questions from deputy public prosecutor Wan Shahida Wan Omar, retired police officer Nur Ronal Adnes Amir – the 12th witness in the case – also said that Samirah looked uneasy and only wanted to go up to the room, which had earlier caught fire.

“I met the owner of the house, who was accompanied by two neighbours at the time. She was not stable, emotionally.

“She was not crying but so looked uneasy and wanted to go up to the room,” Ronal recalled as the former cop was asked to describe the situation by Wan Shahida.

“She asked me if she could go up to see the body of her husband but she was not allowed because the smoke was still thick,” she added.

Ronal said Samirah was only allowed to go up after the situation was under control, adding that she accompanied the prime suspect into the room.

“She sat next to her husband, beside his head. She was not crying and after 10 minutes we went down,” she said.

Samirah then requested a second time to go into the room, this time to collect valuable items belonging to Nazrin, she said.

“Did she tell you what valuable items she need to collect?” Wan Shahida said.

“I don’t know but I went up with her, she took a bag and she went straight to a small table next to the bed.

“She took something, I was not sure, but she did tell me the item was already broken.

“I am not sure if it was a watch or a smartphone,” Ronal said.

The witness later said that Samirah also took a spare key from a drawer and also some foreign currency.

“She showed me the notes but I do not know how much it was. She put the key and the money inside the bag,” she stated.

Ronal said to the court before Justice Ab Karim Ab Rahman that Samirah requested to go up for the third time but was not allowed to enter the crime scene.

At this point, Ronal said that Samirah told her that she needed to clean up the room as the family never hired a maid.

“As she was not allowed in, she went to another room, then to another room.

“She told me she will have to clean house because she had no helper (maid),” she said.

On Wednesday, lead defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah asked a witness if he knew that a Tissot watch and some foreign bank notes went missing after the fire.

Firefighter Mohamad Afzan Majid replied that he had no knowledge about the missing items and was not informed about a police report lodged by the accused in connection with this matter.

Samirah is accused, along with her two teenage sons, of killing her husband Nazrin and covering it up by saying that he had died in a fire caused by a smartphone that had exploded.

Police are also still looking for an Indonesian maid Eka Wahyu Lestari believed to have been employed by the family. Eka is also charged in absentia for the murder.

The case, which was initially classified as sudden death, was reclassified as murder after forensics found traces of accelerant in the room.

Samirah tried to block the exhumation of Nazrin’s body, following which a second post-mortem revealed that Nazrin had suffered a head wound not consistent with that of an exploding smartphone.

The trial resumes on November 8. – October 4, 2019.