Teoh Beng Hock inquest: Aide not assaulted before death, says expert

SHAH ALAM: There is no evidence to indicate that political aide Teoh Beng Hock was assaulted prior to his death last month.

Forensic pathologist Dr Prashant Naresh Samberkar also told an inquest into Teoh's death that assault was unlikely to have caused injuries to the deceased's anal region and skull.

"In this case, the injury to the anus was unlikely caused by assault because such trauma to the orifice would have caused multiple tears around the skin and been very painful.

"And it is unlikely for a person, with that pain, to walk to the window and fall down," he said today, when asked by counsel Tan Hock Chuan, appearing for the government, on the assault theory raised in court earlier.

Dr Prashant, 42, attached to the Forensic Unit of Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya, added that such injury would have led to profuse bleeding which was not present at the time the body was found. NST.