Thailand’s most senior forensic pathologist, the renowned Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, dropped a bombshell at the Teoh Beng Hock inquest today.

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Dr Pornthip is the Director-General of the Central Forensic Science Institute, Ministry of Justice, in Bangkok - Photo credit: thaitsunamihelp.org

This is the latest via Twitter from Malaysian Insider:

  • Dr Pornthip steps out of witness box.
  • Dr Pornthip says, “I never want to criticise the police & doctors.”
  • Dr Pornthip requests Azmil to make statement to media, stresses she is here to offer opinion only.
  • Magistrate Azmil Munthapa Abas, acting as coroner, thanks Dr Pornthip for helping inquest.
  • Dr Pornthip says will take longer time due to decomposition of body but that won’t affect her final analysis.
  • Dr Pornthip tells court she is prepared to do 2nd autopsy even if have to exhume Teoh’s body.
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Remember A Kugan, who died in police custody?

Well, he died as a result of “acute renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis due to blunt trauma to skeletal muscles,” an independent second post mortem has revealed. In layperson’s language: kidney failure as a result of repeated beatings. More accurately, his death was due to his muscle cells disintegrating into his bloodstream and absorbed by the kidney, which led to kidney failure.

His body also had severe burn wounds including those caused “by the repeated application of heat with an instrument or object with a triangular surface, causing multiple V-shaped imprint burn wounds on the skin of back”.

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