The Malaysian Insider,
SHAH ALAM, Nov 9 — As many as 30 bullet holes were found on the white Proton Iswara driven by Aminulrasyid Amzah, a government chemist told the Sessions Court today in the trial of a policeman accused of shooting to death the teen joyrider.
The bullet marks were all consistent with a 9mm calibre bullet, the kind used in the standard Koch & Heckler MP5 submachine gun (KH MP5), said Shaari Desa, a firearms tester from the Chemistry Department.
The submachine gun is a standard firearm issued to police patrolmen.
Shaari, the 24th witness to take the stand, also said the killing shot was fired from a 13-degree angle from the left rear side that pierced the back windscreen and went right through the driver’s headrest and into his brain.
The chemist added he did not find any gunpowder residue around the triangle-shaped hole on the back of the car that marked the bullet’s entry, which suggests the shot was fired from a long distance.
The 43-year-old explained that by long distance, he meant a shot more than three metres away, measured from the gun’s muzzle to the bullet hole.
Shaari added that based on his calculations, the shooter was in a standing position and not lying down when he delivered the killing shot.
He cautioned that external factors, including the weather, could affect the presence of gunpowder residue and the spread of the gunshot.
In his report dated May 19 this year that was read aloud to the court today, the Petaling Jaya-based chemist listed the number and location of the bullet marks on the car as follows:
1. A hole by a bullet entered (fired from the rear at an estimated angle of 13 degrees from the left) at the back windscreen and pierced the headrest on the driver’s seat.
2. Eight holes/bullet marks entered at the rear of the car.
3. Four holes/bullet marks entered at the right rear side of the car.
4. Two holes/bullet marks entered at the left rear side of the car.
5. Two holes/bullet marks entered at the car exhaust.
6. Three holes entered at the petrol tank.
7. Six holes/bullet marks at a position below the car.
8. Two holes at the crown surface of the right rear wheel tyre where the bullets entered. One exited at the base of the rim and one indentation where the other bullet chipped the same rim.
9. Two holes at the crown surface of the left rear wheel tyre where the bullets entered.
He also noted two rounds of 9mm calibre bullets with jackets were found inside the car — one in the rear passenger door panel on the right and the second located below the spare tyre in the boot.
Two bullet fragments were found on the carpet in the boot; four fragments below the spare tyre and one more fragment recovered from the left rear tyre.
He told the court he did not carry out further tests on them because they were “damaged and not suitable to be tested for comparison”.
Earlier, the chemist said he had been requested to run a shooting test on two submachine guns marked “X” and “Y” to determine the gun that fired the killer blow.
He had explained to the court that each gun leaves behind a certain mark on the bullet after it was fired; and that was how the forensic chemist can trace the bullet back to the gun.
But Shaari said he had not been able to carry out a test on the fragment of a spent bullet he was given, said to be retrieved from Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang — where the post-mortem on the dead schoolboy was conducted — because it had been damaged.
He told the court the expended bullet was likely of a 9mm calibre used in the KH MP5, based on the approximate diameter at the base, but could not be sure.
A 9mm bullet without its jacket usually measures between 8.5mm and 8.7m in diameter, he told the court.
That particular bullet was broken and had lost its jacket, making it harder to trace the gun that fired it.
Shaari noted the most extensive damage to the Proton Iswara with the registration plate BET 5023 was caused by a crash.
He observed there were no burnt marks on the crown surface of the two front tyres.
But he also noted down several other curious marks to the car.
“Dents and a print mark shaped like a wheel on the left side consistent with a crash with a wheeled object.
“The right rear side is consistent with [damage] caused by friction with a black object such as the handles of a motorcycle,” Shaari wrote in his report.
A lab analysis later confirmed the black stuff to be made from the black rubber that covers a motorcycle’s steering handles, he noted.
Corporal Jenain Subi, 48, a patrolman attached to the Section 11 police station here, is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid, who took a midnight joyride in a car and was allegedly mistaken for a felon on the run.
The Form Three schoolboy died in the early hours of April 26 this year, believed to be between 1.10am and 2am.
He had been driving a white Proton Iswara with his best friend and neighbour, 15-year-old Muhammad Azamuddin Omar, in the front passenger seat.
Their car crashed into a wall in Jalan Tarian 11/2, Section 11.
Jenain faces up to 30 years in jail and a fine if found guilty.
The trial will resume at 9am tomorrow with the damaged Proton Iswara brought to court to assist Shaari in visually explaining how the shooting could have happened.
SHAH ALAM, Nov 9 — As many as 30 bullet holes were found on the white Proton Iswara driven by Aminulrasyid Amzah, a government chemist told the Sessions Court today in the trial of a policeman accused of shooting to death the teen joyrider.
The bullet marks were all consistent with a 9mm calibre bullet, the kind used in the standard Koch & Heckler MP5 submachine gun (KH MP5), said Shaari Desa, a firearms tester from the Chemistry Department.
The submachine gun is a standard firearm issued to police patrolmen.
Shaari, the 24th witness to take the stand, also said the killing shot was fired from a 13-degree angle from the left rear side that pierced the back windscreen and went right through the driver’s headrest and into his brain.
The chemist added he did not find any gunpowder residue around the triangle-shaped hole on the back of the car that marked the bullet’s entry, which suggests the shot was fired from a long distance.
The 43-year-old explained that by long distance, he meant a shot more than three metres away, measured from the gun’s muzzle to the bullet hole.
Shaari added that based on his calculations, the shooter was in a standing position and not lying down when he delivered the killing shot.
He cautioned that external factors, including the weather, could affect the presence of gunpowder residue and the spread of the gunshot.
In his report dated May 19 this year that was read aloud to the court today, the Petaling Jaya-based chemist listed the number and location of the bullet marks on the car as follows:
1. A hole by a bullet entered (fired from the rear at an estimated angle of 13 degrees from the left) at the back windscreen and pierced the headrest on the driver’s seat.
2. Eight holes/bullet marks entered at the rear of the car.
3. Four holes/bullet marks entered at the right rear side of the car.
4. Two holes/bullet marks entered at the left rear side of the car.
5. Two holes/bullet marks entered at the car exhaust.
6. Three holes entered at the petrol tank.
7. Six holes/bullet marks at a position below the car.
8. Two holes at the crown surface of the right rear wheel tyre where the bullets entered. One exited at the base of the rim and one indentation where the other bullet chipped the same rim.
9. Two holes at the crown surface of the left rear wheel tyre where the bullets entered.
He also noted two rounds of 9mm calibre bullets with jackets were found inside the car — one in the rear passenger door panel on the right and the second located below the spare tyre in the boot.
Two bullet fragments were found on the carpet in the boot; four fragments below the spare tyre and one more fragment recovered from the left rear tyre.
He told the court he did not carry out further tests on them because they were “damaged and not suitable to be tested for comparison”.
Earlier, the chemist said he had been requested to run a shooting test on two submachine guns marked “X” and “Y” to determine the gun that fired the killer blow.
He had explained to the court that each gun leaves behind a certain mark on the bullet after it was fired; and that was how the forensic chemist can trace the bullet back to the gun.
But Shaari said he had not been able to carry out a test on the fragment of a spent bullet he was given, said to be retrieved from Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang — where the post-mortem on the dead schoolboy was conducted — because it had been damaged.
He told the court the expended bullet was likely of a 9mm calibre used in the KH MP5, based on the approximate diameter at the base, but could not be sure.
A 9mm bullet without its jacket usually measures between 8.5mm and 8.7m in diameter, he told the court.
That particular bullet was broken and had lost its jacket, making it harder to trace the gun that fired it.
Shaari noted the most extensive damage to the Proton Iswara with the registration plate BET 5023 was caused by a crash.
He observed there were no burnt marks on the crown surface of the two front tyres.
But he also noted down several other curious marks to the car.
“Dents and a print mark shaped like a wheel on the left side consistent with a crash with a wheeled object.
“The right rear side is consistent with [damage] caused by friction with a black object such as the handles of a motorcycle,” Shaari wrote in his report.
A lab analysis later confirmed the black stuff to be made from the black rubber that covers a motorcycle’s steering handles, he noted.
Corporal Jenain Subi, 48, a patrolman attached to the Section 11 police station here, is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid, who took a midnight joyride in a car and was allegedly mistaken for a felon on the run.
The Form Three schoolboy died in the early hours of April 26 this year, believed to be between 1.10am and 2am.
He had been driving a white Proton Iswara with his best friend and neighbour, 15-year-old Muhammad Azamuddin Omar, in the front passenger seat.
Their car crashed into a wall in Jalan Tarian 11/2, Section 11.
Jenain faces up to 30 years in jail and a fine if found guilty.
The trial will resume at 9am tomorrow with the damaged Proton Iswara brought to court to assist Shaari in visually explaining how the shooting could have happened.
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