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A firefighter is forced to open a bedroom door.
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It's been locked from the outside.
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Inside, a man is lying dead on the bed.
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Burn marks cover parts of his body,
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and the damage is concentrated near the bed frame and around his head.
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But the rest of the room is almost completely untouched.
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Papers are still on the desk.
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The curtains are intact.
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It's the eve of Hari Raya Idyulfi tree,
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the holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
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Across Malaysia, families are getting ready to celebrate.
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But in this home, Nazrin Hassan's family won't be celebrating.
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They will be planning a funeral.
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This is the case of Nazrin Hassan,
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one of the most talked about cases in Malaysia's recent history.
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And I have to say,
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this one raises more questions than it answers.
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It's the early hours of June 14th, 2018.
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In an affluent neighborhood in Petalingjaya,
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Malaysia, a security guard notices something wrong.
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Smoke is rising from a two-story house.
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He walks closer and finds the homeowner's wife,
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Samira Muzaffar, standing on the porch.
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She isn't on the phone.
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She isn't calling for help.
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She isn't doing anything.
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For some reason, none of the members of the household called the emergency services.
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It was the neighbors who reached out for help.
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The firefighters arrive to find Samira still standing at the front door.
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She is completely expressionless.
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No crying, no wailing, even as her husband is burning in the room above her.
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There is no emotion at all.
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The firefighters rush upstairs.
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Inside the bedroom, they find Nasrin Hassan's body on the bed,
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with burn marks covering roughly 30% of his body.
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The room is partially burned,
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but the pattern doesn't look like that of an accidental fire.
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The damage is concentrated in specific areas,
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rather than spreading evenly across the room.
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Flammable items elsewhere are completely untouched.
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And another questionable detail is that Nazarene's body is just lying on the bed.
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There was no sign that he tried to escape,
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no sign that he tried to move at all.
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It was a very strange scene.
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What on earth had happened in this room?
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To understand why this case would go on to grip an entire nation,
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let's first look into who Nazarene Hassan was.
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He was the group CEO of Kradl Fund,
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a government-linked agency under Malaysia's Ministry of Finance.
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Kradl provided grant funding to early-stage technology startups,
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and over the years, it backed hundreds of companies,
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including a ride-hailing startup that would eventually become Grab.
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within Malaysia's tech community Nasrin was seen as something rare a leading figure who genuinely understood entrepreneurship
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because he had actually lived it before running Cradle he had
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been a startup founder himself people who worked with him described him as articulate thoughtful
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and direct he believed that entrepreneurs weren't just building businesses they were trying to create something that mattered.
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He once said that Cradle's job was simply to help as many founders as possible reach commercial success,
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and that what they did with it after that was up to them.
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When people showed up for his funeral on June 15th,
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2018, the turnout said everything.
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It was the kind of crowd you would expect for a head of state,
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not someone working behind the scenes at a grant agency.
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For many people in Malaysia's startup world,
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Cradle had been the only institution that ever believed their idea.
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And Nasrin had been the person behind that.
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For those who had questions about his death,
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his family and Cradle Fund had answers.
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Both groups stated that Nasrin had gone to sleep after taking medication for a migraine,
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migraine, and that while he slept,
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the Blackberry phone charging behind his bed had exploded.
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The autopsy carried out at Kuala Lumpur Hospital appeared to support this.
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It concluded that his death was caused by complications from a blast and blunt penetrating injuries,
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consistent with a phone explosion.
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A tragic accident, case closed.
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Except 10 days after Nazrin had been laid to rest, everything changed.
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On June 25th, a forensic report from the Fire and Rescue Department came back,
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and its findings didn't match the official story at all.
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The department found traces of petrol on Nazrin's body,
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on the bed frame, on the mattress, and on his phone.
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In light of these findings,
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the state's Fire and Rescue Department director said it was far too early to conclude that the phone had caused the fire.
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Then on August 6, 2018,
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the police made it official.
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The case was reclassified.
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Nasrin Hassan's death was no longer considered an accident.
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It was murder.
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Rather than waiting for the authorities to act,
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Nasrin's siblings began pushing for answers themselves.
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His older brother, Dr. Melek Hassan,
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was the first to publicly question the autopsy results.
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Another brother, Dr. Abdulaziz Hassan,
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was a lawyer and helped coordinate the family's efforts.
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And their sister, Chey Eleni Chey Hassan,
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obtained the death certificate and compared it to the fire and rescue department's findings.
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And things weren't adding up.
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She made a formal request to the court for the right to exhume Nasrin's body for a second autopsy.
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On October 1st, 2018, the Magistrates' Court granted police permission to do exactly that.
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But Nasrin's widow, Samira, was opposed to this,
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and her lawyers challenged the decision.
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But the High Court upheld the initial ruling.
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Nasrin's body was exhumed on October 8th and transported to the University of Malaya Medical Center for a second autopsy.
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And here they uncovered something that the first one had not.
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Nasrin had not died from an exploding phone.
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He had died from multiple blunt impacts to the head.
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On March 12, 2019, four people were formally charged with Nasrin's murder.
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The first was his widow, Samira Muzaffar.
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The second and third were her two teenage sons from a previous marriage,
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then aged 17 and 14.
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And the fourth was Ekka Waiu Lestari,
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an Indonesian domestic helper employed by the family.
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For some reason that has never been made clear,
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Ekka was charged, but never actually arrested,
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so she was absent for all court proceedings.
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They were accused of killing Nazrin at his home sometime between 11.30 pm on June 13th and 4 a.m on June 14th.
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The charge was murder, but it was brought jointly against all of them.
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This meant the prosecution had to prove not only that they had murdered Nasrin,
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but that they had acted together with the shared intention to kill him.
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In Malaysia, murder carries a mandatory death sentence upon conviction,
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though that doesn't apply to anyone who was a minor at the time of the offense.
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The teenagers were safe, but Samira's life was on the line.
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The trial began on September 6,
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2019, before the High Court in Shah Alam.
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All three who appeared in court pleaded not guilty.
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The courtroom was packed.
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Nasrin had been a prominent figure,
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and Samira was by no means unknown.
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She was a senior executive at the Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation,
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and her father was Chandra Muzaffar,
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one of Malaysia's most prominent political scientists and human rights figures.
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Her father sat in the public gallery to support her.
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These were not people on the margins of society.
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They were educated, well-connected, and high profile.
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Exactly the type of people to draw public attention.
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And the case itself was compelling.
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The prosecution wasn't just suggesting the fire had been set deliberately.
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They were saying Nasrin may have already been dead before the fire even started.
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Blood spatter found on the wall of the burned room matched Nasrin's DNA.
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A National Police Forensic Officer testified that the pattern was consistent with blunt force trauma,
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not a blast, and that it must have occurred before the fire,
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because the evidence of this was found beneath the suit.
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The prosecution argued that Nazrin had been struck in the head with something consistent with a hammer,
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and that the fire had had been set deliberately in targeted areas to destroy the evidence.
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But there was another forensic detail that raised even more questions.
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A prosecution forensic witness testified that Nasrin had a penetrating wound track in his brain,
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measuring 6.8 centimeters deep and 0.4 centimeters in diameter.
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So to put that in perspective,
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that's a wound track into the brain that's about the length
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of a dollar bill through a channel half the width of a pencil.
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A separate penetrating wound was also found on the front of his neck.
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How had he suffered so many different injuries?
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Before the trial, investigators had looked into whether these wounds could have been caused by something other than a blunt weapon.
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In September 2018, sources told local media
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that one of Samira's teenage sons had been brought in for questioning in connection with a neck injury.
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It's suggested that the wound may have been caused by an arrow,
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and both boys were members of their school archery club.
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These details were never formally established in court.
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No findings were ever made linking any specific injury to a particular weapon or person.
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These remain allegations.
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But there were other things found at the scene that raised their own questions.
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When a forensic officer visited the house in September 2018,
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three months after the incident,
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he found three fragments in the compound consistent with arrow components.
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And inside the house, in a storeroom,
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he found a CCTV recorder.
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It hadn't been switched off.
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It had been completely disconnected from its wiring and removed from sight.
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So whatever happened in that house between 11.30 p.m and 4 a.m.
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went undocumented.
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A firefighter also testified that on the morning of June 14th,
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the day Nasrin's body was discovered,
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he saw one of the teenagers leaving the house with a box.
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What was inside has never been discovered.
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But what could their motive have been?
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As the trial progressed, the prosecution called a series of witnesses to build a picture of the household.
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As a family unit, Samira and Nasrin had one son together,
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and both had children from previous marriages.
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From the outside, it looked like a stable, successful household.
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Nasrin's personal assistant called this into question,
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testifying that Nasrin's work performance had declined after the marriage.
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A colleague described moments where Nasrin seemed unsettled after phone calls with his wife.
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Instead, he had spoken about her spending,
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and at times had mentioned considering a divorce.
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The marriage may not have been as happy as it once seemed.
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There were also reports that Nasrin had received threatening phone calls,
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which he later discovered had come from one of Samira's children.
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The court also heard that Nasrin's clothing had been deliberately damaged by that same child.
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The defense pushed back on the prosecution's portrayal of a fractured family.
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Nasrin's driver testified that family outings in the months before his death seemed completely normal,
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nothing out of the ordinary.
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In addition, text messages from Samira's phone in the days before the incident
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were later described by one of the judges as normal,
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intimate exchanges between a husband and wife.
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The prosecution's main problem was that their case rested entirely on circumstantial evidence.
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They argued that Samira and the two teenagers were the last people seen with Nasrin before his death.
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And Samira had entered Nasrin's room about three hours before the fire broke out.
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She was later seen standing on the porch as smoke rose from the house,
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making no attempt to call for help and showing no emotion.
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And they said the fire had been set deliberately in specific areas to destroy evidence.
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The defense dismantled each piece individually.
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They pointed out that the chemistry department had found no traces of petrol on the walls,
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directly contradicting the fire and rescue department's findings.
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They also raised serious concerns about how the scene had been handled.
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Because the death was initially ruled an accident,
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the house had never been treated as a crime scene.
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It had been cleaned.
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People had continued living in it.
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The arrow fragments and the disconnected TV recorder weren't found until three months after Nazrin's death.
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The blood spatter wasn't discovered until five months after the incident.
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The defense argued that, given all of this,
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the reliability of the evidence collected from the site simply couldn't be guaranteed.
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And then there was Ekawahi Lestari, the family's domestic helper.
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She had been in the house on the night Nasrin died.
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She had been charged, and yet she had never been arrested.
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She wasn't hard to find.
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She was living in another city,
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working in a coffee shop,
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and yet she was never brought before the court to answer a single question about what she might have seen.
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On June 21st, 2022, the High Court acquitted all three defendants without requiring them to present a defense.
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By that point, the two teenagers were 20 and 17.
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The judges found that the prosecution had failed to present even the minimum evidence required to proceed with the trial.
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There was simply nothing to show that any of the accused had caused Nasrin's death.
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Outside the courtroom, Nasrin's brother,
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Dr. Abdulaziz Hassan, told reporters the family still had unanswered questions and hoped the prosecution would appeal.
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His sister, Cheyelini Cheyassan, was direct.
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The family wasn't trying to send anyone to the gallows.
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They just wanted the truth.
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The prosecution did appeal.
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They raised the additional question of the door to Nasrin's room being locked from the outside.
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However, they still didn't have enough.
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On February 8th, 2024, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal.
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There was no proof of a common intention among the three accused.
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The Petro evidence was rejected outright,
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given its direct contradiction by the chemistry department.
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And the court noted, again,
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that another person charged with Nazrin's murder had been living openly within the country.
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and that nobody had ever gone to get her.
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The prosecution appealed one final time to the federal court,
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the highest court in Malaysia.
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On January 7th, 2026, the three judges unanimously dismissed the appeal.
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They too found the evidence to be insufficient.
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And so, Samira Muzaffar and her two sons are,
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in the eyes of the law, completely innocent.
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All three were acquitted at every level of Malaysia's court system.
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Ekawayu Lestari remains at large.
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Nobody has been convicted of Nasrin Hassan's murder.
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After the federal court's decision,
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Nasrin's brother, Dr. Malek Hassan, spoke to reporters.
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Our feelings are mixed, he said.
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My sister is deeply saddened because they were very close.
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She only wants to know what actually happened.
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not who is to blame.
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And we really don't know what happened.
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There were so many different findings from different sources that it's truly impossible to discern.
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A localized fire, traces of petrol,
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a foam explosion, blood spatter,
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blunt force trauma to the head,
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a deep injury to the brain,
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arrow fragments, a door locked from the outside,
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and a wife who decided for whatever reason not to call for help.
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All we know for sure is this.
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Nasrin Hassan went home on the last evening of Ramadan.
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There was a fire in his room,
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and by morning, his family was preparing for his burial.
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We can only hope that in the future his family members get the answers they need.
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That is all for today.
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Thank you for watching.
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