Widow looked ‘casual’, fireman tells Cradle Fund CEO murder trial
Ho Kit Yen
-October 2, 2019 2:53 PM
Samirah Muzaffar is charged with the murder of her husband, Nazrin Hassan, who died in a fire last year.SHAH ALAM: A fireman told the High Court hearing the murder case of Cradle Fund CEO Nazrin Hassan that the latter’s widow behaved “casually” despite knowing her husband was trapped in a bedroom that was on fire.
Mohamad Afzan Majid from the Damansara fire and rescue station, said Samirah Muzaffar did not seem sad when he and his colleagues arrived at the couple’s Mutiara Damansara home on June 14, 2018.
“She waved at us when we arrived in the fire truck. Three of us approached her, where she told us she was the house owner and that her husband was trapped in the bedroom that was on fire,” Afzan told deputy public prosecutor Ashyraf Ashy’ari Kamaruzaman.
Samirah and two teenagers are charged with Nazrin’s murder. Another suspect, Indonesian national Eka Wahyu Lestari, is still at large.
Afzan said in his 22 years as a fireman, he had never seen relatives of victims who were as composed as Samirah.
He said upon arrival at Nazrin’s house, he and two other firemen rushed up to the bedroom to put out the fire.
“The victim’s wife also followed us to the room upstairs. I tried to stop her from storming into the room because it was dangerous,” he said.
He said his colleague later informed him that there was a charred body in the room.
“The woman begged us to let her into the room so she could see her husband. My colleague and I agreed.
“When we entered the room, I saw the charred remains of a man clad in underwear. The woman kneeled beside her husband and only kept quiet,” Afzan said, adding that Samirah spent about five minutes beside her husband’s body.
Asked by defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah if the fireman was too busy to see Samirah’s expression, Afzan agreed that this could be possible.
“One thing for sure, she did not care about her safety and insisted to go into the room to see her husband?” Shafee asked, to which Afzan replied “Yes”.
Hearing continues before High Court judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman.
