SHAH ALAM, Oct 13 — The Sessions Court here was told today that shooting victim, Aminulrasyid Amzah’s body was found in a different position than what was photographed and tendered as evidence in court.
Klang hospital’s Muhamad Sahid Abdul Karim was the first emergency aid worker to reach the car crash scene in Section 11’s Jalan Makyong on April 26, at 2.23am.
“When I got there, the victim was not like that,” the trial’s first non-police personnel testified, after scrutinizing a set of pictures handed to him by deputy public prosecutor Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar.
Muhamad Sahid, however, did not elaborate how the position was different.
But he said he remembered because the shorts worn by the victim that morning was “colourful”, different from the shorts in the photograph.
The photographs he was asked to look at — pasted on an A4-sized sheet of paper in a folder — could not be seen from the public gallery.
Muhamad Sahid said he saw the victim, whom he described as a young man, lying face down outside the crashed car, a white Proton that was pinned between a tree and a fence.
“I saw a man lying down outside a car with his legs stretched straight out and his head on the car seat. I didn’t see his face,” he said and got down on his hands and knees, burying his face straight into a cushioned chair next to the witness stand, to demonstrate what he meant.
He added he did not remember how the hands were positioned.
The paramedic immediately pulled out a penlight to check on the victim’s body for signs of life and injuries. He found none – no wounds and no vital signs – from a cursory check on the back of the body.
He did it twice to be sure, using a stethoscope to listen for breathing sounds. That’s when he pronounced the victim had passed away and informed the police.
“So I stopped. Then I saw my hand, which had been gloved, had blood on it. It was the hand that had been supporting the victim’s forehead,” Muhamad Sahid said, adding he tried to turn the victim over to check for injuries but was blocked by a policeman.
”There was a policeman who forbid me from moving or shifting the victim from his prone position,” the witness said.
He was told to wait for the police investigating officer to arrive first before making any further move on the body.
Muhamad Sahid also said he had not been informed there was a shooting when he received the order from the hospital’s emergency call centre at 2.02am to attend to a road accident in Section 11.
It took him about 20 minutes to reach the crash site from the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang, he said. He had taken a wrong turning and had to ask for directions from the call centre.
He left to return to the hospital after spending about 20 minutes at the scene but without taking the body in the ambulance back with him.
Teenager Aminulrasyid had been hotly pursued by two police patrol cars in the early hours of April 26 morning.
The 14-year-old had snuck out with his elder sister’s white Proton to go for a joyride with his pal, Azamuddin Omar, without a driving licence.
Yesterday, police photographers testified that two live bullets and 17 spent shells were recovered from the around the crash scene.
Klang hospital’s Muhamad Sahid Abdul Karim was the first emergency aid worker to reach the car crash scene in Section 11’s Jalan Makyong on April 26, at 2.23am.
“When I got there, the victim was not like that,” the trial’s first non-police personnel testified, after scrutinizing a set of pictures handed to him by deputy public prosecutor Mohd Dusuki Mokhtar.
Muhamad Sahid, however, did not elaborate how the position was different.
But he said he remembered because the shorts worn by the victim that morning was “colourful”, different from the shorts in the photograph.
The photographs he was asked to look at — pasted on an A4-sized sheet of paper in a folder — could not be seen from the public gallery.
Muhamad Sahid said he saw the victim, whom he described as a young man, lying face down outside the crashed car, a white Proton that was pinned between a tree and a fence.
“I saw a man lying down outside a car with his legs stretched straight out and his head on the car seat. I didn’t see his face,” he said and got down on his hands and knees, burying his face straight into a cushioned chair next to the witness stand, to demonstrate what he meant.
He added he did not remember how the hands were positioned.
The paramedic immediately pulled out a penlight to check on the victim’s body for signs of life and injuries. He found none – no wounds and no vital signs – from a cursory check on the back of the body.
He did it twice to be sure, using a stethoscope to listen for breathing sounds. That’s when he pronounced the victim had passed away and informed the police.
“So I stopped. Then I saw my hand, which had been gloved, had blood on it. It was the hand that had been supporting the victim’s forehead,” Muhamad Sahid said, adding he tried to turn the victim over to check for injuries but was blocked by a policeman.
”There was a policeman who forbid me from moving or shifting the victim from his prone position,” the witness said.
He was told to wait for the police investigating officer to arrive first before making any further move on the body.
Muhamad Sahid also said he had not been informed there was a shooting when he received the order from the hospital’s emergency call centre at 2.02am to attend to a road accident in Section 11.
It took him about 20 minutes to reach the crash site from the Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang, he said. He had taken a wrong turning and had to ask for directions from the call centre.
He left to return to the hospital after spending about 20 minutes at the scene but without taking the body in the ambulance back with him.
Teenager Aminulrasyid had been hotly pursued by two police patrol cars in the early hours of April 26 morning.
The 14-year-old had snuck out with his elder sister’s white Proton to go for a joyride with his pal, Azamuddin Omar, without a driving licence.
Yesterday, police photographers testified that two live bullets and 17 spent shells were recovered from the around the crash scene.
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