Teoh Beng Hock aged 30, political secretary to Selangor Exco Ean Yong Hian Wah was found dead on July 16, 2009 on Level 5 of Plaza Masalam after giving a statement as a witness into alleged abuse of state government allocation at the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission office.
How could the trouser of Teoh's buttock was badly torn and exposing his underwear? There is no sharp object near the place where he was found. The left shoe of Teoh was also not found at his left foot!!! Could the left shoe flew off from the foot in the air during the jump? It is very unlikely nor logically that the shoe could fly. It is more likely that the shoe was thrown out after Teoh had been thrown off.
Hypothesis on the cause of the fall of Teoh Beng Hock and Inquest Begins:-
Day 1 On 5-8-2009 Wednesday
1.12pm: Sixth and last witness for today's inquest is another security guard at Plaza Masalam Abd Rahman Rahim. He said his shift at Plaza Masalam lobby was from 4am to 8am on July 16, adding that he did not take down names of those who entered and left the building. When questioned by Coroner Azmil if the security personnel are required to note down names of visitors in a logbook, Abd Rahman said they have to but he did not do so. DPP Tan then said that according to the investigating officer (IO), the logbook had not been filled for months. Azmil asked the IO to produce the logbook in court Thursday and for Abd Rahman to take the stand again.
1pm: Fifth witness Wan Rosli Wan Adam, a security guard at Plaza Masalam admitted that the security company did not carry out its own investigation after Teoh's body was found at the premise. He added that he never questioned the MACC officers on witnesses brought into the building late at night. When Gobind suggested that questioning witnesses late at night until the wee hours of the morning is not a normal practice, Wan Rosli agreed, adding that it did happen sometimes. 11.10am: Inquest resumes. Third witness to take the stand is another security personnel at Plaza Masalam Mohd Khairul Izwan M. Nasir. As ordered by his superior, he said he covered the body with a black plastic sheet and placed bricks on the sheet to keep it in place.
Coroner & Inquest Team inspecting the site
Day 2 On 6-8-2009 Thursday 4.26pm: Inquest adjourns to Friday. Coroner to visit scene of crime. 4.18pm: Dr Seah Lay Hong of the Chemistry Department, said blood found on Teoh's body came from a single source. 3.35pm: Dr Seah said in her hypothesis, force was applied at the tear region of the belt in order for the tear to occur. Cross examined by Gobind Singh who suggested that the belt might have been held, Dr Seah said it was one of the many possibilities. Gobind: Do you also say that it's fair that this man was being held from a high building by the belt and it snapped? Is that a possibility? Dr Seah: It's speculative but it's one of the many possibilities. 3.20pm: Dr Seah said DNA profiles of 157 individuals were compared with 'Male 1' and the other unknown male contributor. She found 'Male 1' not among the 157 and neither is anyone of the 157 a contributing source of DNA derived from the swab taken from the belt.
Dr Seah said it was not possible to identify someone's race from the sample taken.
3pm: Dr Seah opens package to show the coat worn by Teoh. Another package contained Teoh's pants with blood stains found mainly on the right side.
Dr Seah showed Teoh's belt to the court. She said DNA profile derived from a swab taken at a tear region of the belt consisted of a mix of male DNA types, indicating concordance with Teoh, Male 1 and at least one other unknown male.
She said further DNA testing for comparison and matching were carried out on 157 individuals. Dr Seah said DNA profile derived from swab taken from the back outer side of a blazer consisted of a mix of male DNA types of two individuals concordant with Teoh and one unknown male identified as 'Male 1' 12.35pm: Dr Seah Lay Hong of Chemist Dept introduces exhibits, including Teoh's nail clippings and hair.
Day 3 On 7-8-2009 Friday 9.55am: Tan Hock Chuan, representing the Attorney-General, arrives at the Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam and enters the MACC office. 9.50am: Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas arrives at the Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam, heads towards 14th floor of the building where lawyers, court officials and police are waiting at the MACC office. 9.45am: Lawyers, court officials and police head towards the 14th floor where the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is located as part of their site visit.
Day 4 On 10-8-2009 Monday 10.04am: Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo is applying to the court to send chemist Dr Seah Lay Hong, who testified last week, and two forensic experts to go to Plaza Masalam this morning to conduct its evaluation as there were new findings - stains found the emergency staircase between floor 14 and 15 of the building. MACC is located on floor 14. The stains are believed to be blood. He said the evidence was crucial and should be tested without delay. He also pointed out that the place was only secured by the police on Saturday.
Day 5 on 11-8-2009 Tuesday Senior consultant pathologist Dr Khairul Azman, 51, said the political aide had 22 fractures, abrasions and bruises when the post-mortem was conducted on him on July 17. According to Dr Khairul Azman, of the Klang Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, none of these injuries indicated that Teoh had sustained them either in a struggle or by defending himself in an attack. He concluded that Teoh Beng Hock died of multiple injuries caused by a fall from a high place and the post-mortem showed no signs of defensive injuries or a struggle.
Question: Could Teoh be death for few minutes in the building from interrogation and then he was dumped off from 14th floor MACC building?
Comments: The spot where his body was found sprawled on his right side shows only a small pool of blood stain. The blood oozed out from near his head only. As his right hand and right leg sustained serious fracture, the fall could be sideway rather than landing vertically on both legs. The theory of self-jumping off the ledge will land on both legs or flat on his face but unlikely sideway on his side unless the person is already unconscious and not flapping his hands.
Day 6 On 12-8-2009, Wednesday the coroner's court heard of video footage from closed-circuit television at Plaza Masalam showing Teoh entering the building through the fourth floor lobby at 6.09pm on July 15. The recording, however, did not show him leaving the building after that or the following morning, according to 11th witness police officer Insp Mohd Zulaimi Zubir from the Shah Alam police headquarters' crime department.
Day 7 On 13-8-2009 Thursday at 10.40am Insp Mazli says that based on scratch marks on the sole of Teoh's shoes, there is a possibility that he (Teoh) was dragged. He says there were no footsteps found on the 14th floor window sill. "I have checked. The place is dusty. If someone had set foot there, there must be shoe prints," says Insp Mazli.
Day 8 On 14-8-2009 Friday 10.19am Tan Hock Chuan: In your opinion, based on post-mortem report, injuries on the deceased, your site visits on July 16 and 22, toxicology reports and DNA reports, is it likely Teoh's death was caused by suicide? Dr Khairul: In my opinion it would likely be that the deceased jumped off. There are signs (of suicide). 10.05am: Dr Khairul says that, in his opinion, there was no conclusive evidence of homicide. He says there were no signs of struggle. 09.25am: Dr Khairul says that he saw no obvious signs that Teoh was dragged.
Comments: Klang Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) senior consultant pathologist Dr. Khairul was contradicting with (Day 2) DNA expert Dr Seah's statement about "Male 1" DNA and another unknown male contributor, and also contradicting with (Day 7) Inspector Mazli says that based on scratch marks on the sole of Teoh's shoes, there is a possibility that he (Teoh) was dragged. The reason could be he was merely examining the dead body of Teoh but make no reference to the sole of Teoh's shoes.
On 14-8-2009 4.20PM Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo said the theory by pathologist Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim could not be accepted because it was not supported by evidence. Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo is a counsel holding a watching brief for Teoh's family in the inquest into his death.
Dr Khairul Azman and investigating officer ASP Ahmad Nazri Zainal (left) discussing outside the magistrate’s court in Shah Alam on
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In this particular case the shoe was found far away from the body. How far was it? (Teohs right shoe was off his feet when his remains were found.)
“I didn’t measure,” Dr Khairul Azman, who is a consultant pathologist with
Gobind: It’s good to measure isn’t it? You cannot tell us how the shoe got there. You are in no position to tell us!
Dr Khairul Azman: It could have come off when he fell. Gobind then said that logically, if the shoe was tight, this would not have happened.
Gobind then asked Dr Khairul Azman how he reckoned Teoh had come out of the window and the pathologist stepped out of the witness stand and demonstrated how he thought Teoh had jumped. (While doing so, he demonstrated how he thought Teoh would have stood on the bottom ledge and gripped its top ledge.) When Gobind asked Dr Khairul Azman if there would have been shoe prints or hand prints on the window frame if Teoh had jumped off in that manner, the pathologist agreed, adding that there was a possibility the footprints were not noticed.
Comments: Dr Kairul Azman’s evidence is inconclusive as the self-jumping from the 14th floor may cause a person to land flat or sprawl on the ground and quite unlikely to land sideway. If the person is flapping in the air out of fear during the fall, the aerodynamic principle tells us that it is flat fall as seen from the sky diving. Does anyone see the sky divers fall sideway??? Now a jump from 2 to 3 storeys (about 11 metres) of the building may land sideway as the time would be too short to change position while falling under gravity. But a 14th floor is about 150 metres high so there is time for the body to spread out during the fall unless the person was already dead or unconscious.
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Day 10 On 18-8-2009 Tuesday The 10th day of the inquest begins with 13th witness Chief Inspector Mazli Jusoh, the investigating officer from the Forensics Dept at the Selangor police headquarters (IPK Selangor), being recalled to the stand. He is being questioned by Tan Hock Chuan, who is acting for the Attorney-General. UMMC forensic pathologist Dr Prashant Samberkar says the injuries sustained in Teoh Beng Hock’s anal region were a result of the impact at the time of landing. On Monday, Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim, the Klang Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) senior consultant pathologist, said Teoh had injuries in his anus, adding it was possible that such injuries could have been caused when he was beaten with a blunt wooden object. 3:05PM Dr Prashant says in most suicide cases, it is the responsibility of the forensics team to find a reason for suicide by doing background checks and such. He says it was beyond his capacity to determine a reason in this case. He adds that it was as likely that Teoh squatted before jumping off as it was unlikely for him to stand at the windowsill by virtue of his height.
Day 10. “The scratch ends here at almost a horizontal line is consistent with a person sitting or squatting on a 3millimetre window frame. This would not have occurred on impact at level five,” Prashant told the inquest. The coroner and lawyers immediately perked up at this piece of news. The previous pathologist, Dr Khairul had earlier demonstrated how Teoh had climbed out the window and stood on an ledge outside before leaping down to his death on the 5th-floor landing at Plaza Masalam here.
The windowsill at Plaza Masalam is enough for a person to sit on it inside but insufficient to stand on it outside to jump off to the position where he was found. Teoh’s body was not found directly below the window
But Prashant told the coroner that he did not share Dr Khairul’s view. “I would say he was squatting. The window frame is not tall enough for him to stand,” he explained, pointing that the limited length of the window would not have been able to fit Teoh who stood close to 5-foot nine-inches.
"There is no evidence of tongue injury"
- DR PRASHANT NARESH SAMBERKAR
“So he is not standing outside. He is not sitting here and his legs outside. Somebody is not making sense,” lawyer Gobind Singh Deo quipped, turning around to face the public gallery before waggling his eyebrows. Turning back to Prashant, Gobind asked if it was possible for Teoh to have been held briefly by several people while squatting at the window. “It is possible, sir,” the boyish pathologist replied.
The lawyer then quizzed Prashant on his earlier observation of smudged marks and some “vertical stripes” on the dusty glass pane of the 14th-floor window and suggested that those marks could come from Teoh as he was falling.
Gobind: You say finger drag marks. Wouldn’t that be a form of resistance as well? Prashant: Yes, sir. Gobind: So, it would show the person sitting there was trying to resist? Prashant: Possible, sir.
Further questioning from Gobind revealed that Dr Prashant had not taken part in the interview with Teoh’s family or fiancee to determine his state of mind and had only second-hand information that Teoh was due to register his marriage or be a father in under seven months. The Indian expert admitted it was crucial to know the psychological history of the deceased to decide if he had suicidal tendencies.
Comments: Dr Prashant's evidence is inconclusive as he failed to interview the family of Teoh Beng Hock before jumping to his conclusion. He was called by the police to assist in the investigation into the truth or merely to classify the case as non-accidental? Why a young man expecting to be a father would terminate his own life?
- One can review the extent of the torn trouser's buttock from the photo on this page and decide yourself whether both pathologists' hypothesis is correct or not.
- The tear of the trouser's buttock could not be caused by sitting on the windowsill nor caused by impact of the buttock on the ground from the fall.
- It more likely caused by striking against the window's 3mm metal frame with considerable force as the tear was horizontally across the buttock; the injuries at the buttock are consistent with the striking force against the window's 3mm metal frame;
- The serious tear reached near the thigh region could be caused by someone grasping the back of the mildly torn trouser to lift him off the windowsill and pushed off the window;
- The landed position of the body indicated that Teoh was facing outward from the window and not facing inward as the heel of left foot was facing towards the building which means that he did not climb out but rather lift up forcefully onto the 3mm metal frame;
- There is hypothesis that at least one person grabbed TBH's belt based on DNA evidence and pushed him off the window. But Teoh could resist with his hands against the window pane producing several fingerprints.
- It makes sense that Teoh's right hand grabbed the window's handle or something to prevent himself from falling as his right hand fingers were still grasped when he died;
- It seems Teoh's face was facing towards the window pane and not facing towards the building as his left shoe's heel was facing towards the building. The right foot landed first and the impact fractured the thigh bone causing the body to topple to the right side.
- Sitting on the windowsill would not produce such tear to the trouser and jumping off the small opening of the window would not come to such angle of the projectile, to the place where his body was found.
- If he climbed out of the window himself and holding to the windowsill by both hands before jumping away from the window, it is more likely his face and toes would be facing inward to the building and not otherwise.
Day 11
Teoh was in a room at the MACC office in Plaza Masalam with officer Mohd Nadzri Ibrahim, who was recording his statement, at about
Comments: The many fingerprints on the window proved that there were more than one person at the window of the 14th floor when Teoh was outside the window and could be holding onto it. So there must be eye-witnesses in the MACC who saw the event. Where is the signed statement of Teoh Beng Hock that MACC Officer said to have recorded the statement in order to prove that Teoh had finished his statement and was discharged by MACC?
On 20-8-2009 Latest Information: Mystery Letter reveals top MACC man in political collusion and the suspected murderer. The letter which emerged at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest yesterday is believed to contain claims connecting a Top Ranking MACC Officer to the interrogation of the political aide, which could have led to his death. The letter allegedly came from Pegawai-Pegawai MACC (SPRM) Headquarters in Putrajaya.
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