Crossing the first hurdle in what is expected to be a painful experience ahead, the mother of a doctor who died under mysterious circumstances in Langkawi four years ago today obtained a High Court order to exhume his body for the purpose of another post-mortem.
The Alor Setar High Court also granted Santaamal Philip's application for an inquest to determine how Dr Sebastian Joseph, who was a medical officer at the Kuah government clinic in Langkawi, died.
DPP Mohamad Rizal Fadzil and the family's lawyer also came to a compromise that the post-mortem will be jointly handled by the family’s choice of Australian pathologist Dr Richard Byron Collins and local pathologists.
The family will also bear all costs related to the exhumation and post-mortem.
Santaamal's lawyer M.Visvanathan told The Malaysian Insider that he expected the exhumation of Dr Sebastian's remains from a cemetery in Shah Alam to take place this month, after he extracts the relevant orders from the court next week.
He said the next step would be to liaise with the Attorney-Genral’s Chambers, the police and Dr Collins on the scheduling of the exhumation.
"We want Dr Collins to be here when the exhumation takes place, so I am hoping we can do this by the end of this month," Visvanathan said.
Visvanathan said that while the family is relieved that they are finally on track to finding out what happened to the 30-year-old medical officer, it is not going to be an easy journey for them.
Dr Sebastian was found dead in his government quarters in Padang Matsirat on November 17, 2010.
He was said to be in a kneeling position with his hands clenched.
In her application to the court in November last year, Santaamal said the post-mortem on Dr Sebastian was conducted at Langkawi Hospital by Dr Muhamad Arif Mohamad Rasat but the report stated the cause of death as "unascertained".
She said that the doctor who conducted the post-mortem was not a pathologist but only a general practitioner.
In a previous interview, Santaamal had said that a month before her son's death, she had visited him to help him furnish his five-bedroom quarters, and said he had shared some “troubling” information of what was going on at his workplace.
Declining to elaborate, Santaamal only said it had to do with how many of the patients at the health clinic were prescribed Panadol for all sorts of ailments.
Dr Sebastian had also told his mother that various types of medication prescribed by him were not available in the clinic pharmacy, and that he wanted to report the matter to his superior. – January 7, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/court-orders-mans-body-exhumed-to-probe-death-4-years-ago#sthash.mq74J4OW.dpuf
The Alor Setar High Court also granted Santaamal Philip's application for an inquest to determine how Dr Sebastian Joseph, who was a medical officer at the Kuah government clinic in Langkawi, died.
DPP Mohamad Rizal Fadzil and the family's lawyer also came to a compromise that the post-mortem will be jointly handled by the family’s choice of Australian pathologist Dr Richard Byron Collins and local pathologists.
The family will also bear all costs related to the exhumation and post-mortem.
Santaamal's lawyer M.Visvanathan told The Malaysian Insider that he expected the exhumation of Dr Sebastian's remains from a cemetery in Shah Alam to take place this month, after he extracts the relevant orders from the court next week.
He said the next step would be to liaise with the Attorney-Genral’s Chambers, the police and Dr Collins on the scheduling of the exhumation.
"We want Dr Collins to be here when the exhumation takes place, so I am hoping we can do this by the end of this month," Visvanathan said.
Visvanathan said that while the family is relieved that they are finally on track to finding out what happened to the 30-year-old medical officer, it is not going to be an easy journey for them.
Dr Sebastian was found dead in his government quarters in Padang Matsirat on November 17, 2010.
He was said to be in a kneeling position with his hands clenched.
In her application to the court in November last year, Santaamal said the post-mortem on Dr Sebastian was conducted at Langkawi Hospital by Dr Muhamad Arif Mohamad Rasat but the report stated the cause of death as "unascertained".
She said that the doctor who conducted the post-mortem was not a pathologist but only a general practitioner.
In a previous interview, Santaamal had said that a month before her son's death, she had visited him to help him furnish his five-bedroom quarters, and said he had shared some “troubling” information of what was going on at his workplace.
Declining to elaborate, Santaamal only said it had to do with how many of the patients at the health clinic were prescribed Panadol for all sorts of ailments.
Dr Sebastian had also told his mother that various types of medication prescribed by him were not available in the clinic pharmacy, and that he wanted to report the matter to his superior. – January 7, 2015.
- See more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/court-orders-mans-body-exhumed-to-probe-death-4-years-ago#sthash.mq74J4OW.dpuf
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