SHAH ALAM, April 7 — The defence in the murder trial of Cradle Fund chief executive Nazrin Hassan today dismissed the prosecution’s theories of motive by Samirah Muzaffar to kill her husband four years ago, going as far to describe them as far-fetched and hearsay.
Rahmat also cited evidence obtained during cross-examination of several witnesses that further established the good relationship between the accused persons and Nazrin including Nazrin’s older sister Che Elainee Che Hassan , Nazrin’s personal assistant Nurul Anisah Abdullah , Nazrin’s former driver Ahmad Edree Abdul Rashid and Nazrin’s colleague Eliza Elias .
He further told the court the prosecution wanted to paint a ‘bad relationship’ between the couple, which the latter contended that Samirah would benefit financially after Nazrin’s death. Rahmat also said the prosecution had relied on the ‘last seen together’ theory in an attempt to shift the burden on the accused persons as it was the undisputed fact that the accused persons were all in the place of incident at the material time with the deceased, failing which, such failure would lead to a presumption of guilt.
The lawyer said the accused persons, being the deceased’s own family members who stay at the same house as him, are naturally expected to be with him and therefore no adverse inference of guilt should be drawn against them. Muhammad Shafee said what was evident and undisputed is that the maid namely Eka Wahyu Lestari was in fact residing in Kuching, Sarawak and had worked there a year after the murder took place.
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