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Coroner: Detainee’s death a misadventure

KUALA LUMPUR: A coroner has ruled there was no criminal element in the death of labourer N. Prakash Moses, who died while in police custody.

Coroner Nazran Mohd Sham said the cause of Prakash’s death was due to head injury.

“Based on the evidence adduced from the witnesses, the court has found that the detainee fell by himself. The court classifies it as a misadventure,” he said.

Nazran said Prakash’s fall was at the Jalan Hang Tuah police detention centre, while the detainee died at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital (HKL) on Feb 18, 2003.

Nazran said this yesterday in his decision in the inquest to determine the cause of death of the father of eight.

Prakash, 40, was among 42 people detained under Ops Tapis around the Chow Kit area at 11pm on Feb 14, 2003 for suspected drug-related offences.

He was later taken to a detention centre.

According to the court papers, there were witnesses who saw him fall at the detention centre.

He was sent to HKL at 9am on Feb 15 for treatment. He was admitted to the intensive care unit on the same day and died three days later.

A port-mortem report by HKL forensic expert Dr Mohammad Shafie Othman cited the head injury caused by the fall as the cause of Prakash’s death.

A total of 17 witnesses testified at the inquest, which began on Feb 4, 2005.

DPP Syaiful Nazrin Mohd Rahim assisted the coroner in the proceedings.

Lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad, who held a watching brief for Prakash’s family, said the family was considering filing for a revision over the ruling.

Yeah, of course, there's no foul-play. Who would believe it anyway?

The police is clean... yeah, I believed so too... If the police are bad guys, they won't be calling them "police", will they? So, I "believe" police are good man.