SHAH ALAM, Aug 12 — The coroner’s court hearing into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock was today told that the hard disk containing the CCTV recording at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office here is incompatible with the system used by the Bukit Aman police forensics department.
Inspector Mohamad Zulaimi Zubir, from the Shah Alam police headquarters CID, the eleventh witness in the inquest, said the CCTV recording had to be downloaded to a pendrive and a laptop belonging to one of the officers from the Bukit Aman forensic team before it could be played.
The result was 47 individual recorded images were produced in which one of them contained the image of Teoh entering the building on July 15 at approximately 6.08pm. Although his face was not seen due to the CCTV camera's position, he was identified through the black suit and cream pants he wore when he was found dead.
Zulaimi said the CCTV recording had to be downloaded to a pendrive.
Lawyers representing Teoh's family and the Selangor government, Gobind Singh Deo and Malik Imtiaz Sarwar respectively, both came in only at about 12.30pm. Both had a prior court case they had to attend to.
Both government pathologists scheduled to take the stand today, Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim and Dr Prashan Nareshsandenkar, did not turn up after they claimed to have fallen ill.
The inquest will continue today nevertheless with Inspector Ameyrudin Ahamad Zuki, the Bukit Aman forensic officer in charge of handling the CCTV evidence, next in line for questioning.
Teoh was found dead on July 16 on the rooftop of a five-storey building next to Plaza Masalam, where the MACC has its Selangor head office on the 14th floor.
He had been taken in as a witness in a probe into alleged misuse of state funds. He was due to register his marriage to his two-month pregnant fiancée Soh Cher Wei the day he was found dead.
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