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No drugs,
alcohol
in body
T
HE Teoh Beng Hock in-
quest entered its third day
yesterday with a chemist
testifying that she found
no trace of alcohol or
drugs in the 30-year-old po-
litical aide’s blood, urine and
stomach content samples.
Gobind Singh
acting for Teoh’s family,
Deo,
grilled Zaraiha Awang from
the Petaling Jaya Chemistry
Department on why she did
not test for adrenalin in Teoh’s
blood, despite agreeing that
when a person is under pres-
sure, there would be adrenalin
present in the blood.
Zaraiha said she did not test
for adrenalin as there was no
A(H1N1) scare ... Students of Foon Yew High School in Kulai, Johor, wait to such request from the police.
have their throat swaps taken after about 100 of them came down with influenza-like Teoh was found dead on
symptoms yesterday morning.The students, including an entire junior middle two class, were the fifth floor of Plaza Masa-
given medicine by medical officers from the state health department and advised to go on lam in Shah Alam on July 16.
home quarantine. It was learnt that the students had turned up for school despite showing He was earlier questioned as
flu-like symptoms for fear that they might be penalised for missing classes. More reports on a witness by the Malaysian
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(MACC), whose office is on
the 14th floor of the same
building.
Other highlights:
» Tension arose between
Gobind Singh and Tan Hock
Chuan, who is assisting
the inquest, when Gobind
Singh said media reports
suggested Teoh was “pushed”.
Tan wanted the word ex-
punged as the cause of death
was not known yet.
This got Gobind Singh in
an argumentative mood. “How
are you going to find out he is
not pushed, if we don’t ask?”
» Witness Saiful Fazamil
Mohd Ali of the criminalistic
section of the Forensic Depart-
ment testified on a number of
exhibits, including a screw,
window latch with three
screws, metal clip, a watch and
a connecting pin, a button with
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TEOH
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inquest
a white thread, a pair of pants,
covered with blood, a part of a
doormat, and a piece of paint.
» Third and final witness of
the day Dr Seah Lay Hong,
a forensic DNA expert from
the Chemistry Department,
testified that none of the 157
DNA samples tested matched
the unknown DNA found on
Teoh’s body. The breakdown:
• 14 samples were from the
Forensic Pathology Depart-
ment of Hospital Tengku
Ampuan Rahimah Klang, Uni-
versity Malaya Medical Centre
and Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
• 49 were from police person-
nel, and 81 from MACC staff.
• Two samples were from
cleaners contracted by the Se-
langor MACC offices in Plaza
Masalam,
• Eight were from the security
and maintenance personnel of
the building.
• Three from Kajang munici-
pal councillor Tan Boon Wah,
technician Lee Wye Wing and
Mohd Harun Abdullah.
» The coroner will visit the
scene of the incident today.
» Questioning of ex-
pert witnesses will con-
tinue on Monday pending a
preliminary report from an
independent expert from
Thailand.
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