The inquest into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock today heard that an attempt at a reconstruction of the incident that led to this death was conducted by pathologists.

Responding to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Abdul Razak Musa, police investigating officer ASP Ahmad Nazri Zainal said the reconstruction was done using a mineral water bottle and a doll by pathologists Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim and Dr Prashant, on the advice of a UKM forensic expert.

“(The forensic expert’s) theory is that if someone jumped out of the window, the body would be found further away from the wall (of the building he jumped out of) as there would be force used to hurl himself out.

NONE “We tried to get (a life-sized) dummy but could not because it costs too much. The findings were not introduced in court, as the doll and the bottle are too light,” he said, adding that the dummy cost RM400,000.

As such, Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas ( right ) expunged the evidence as the findings were unreliable.

Teoh was found about eight feet from the wall, on the fifth floor landing of Plaza Masalam, Shah Alam, on July 16, 2009, after an overnight interrogation at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s office on the 14th floor of the same building.

In his line of questioning today, Abdul Razak also attempted to link Teoh's purported final note, which Ahmad Nazri had allegedly found in Teoh's backpack, to the deceased's MACC statement and four documents found in his laptop.

Selangor government counsel Malik Imtiaz raised objections to this, saying that Abdul Razak was trying to "introduce evidence through the back door".

Abdul Razak defended his move by explaining that he was trying to argue that the writer of the note was Teoh, as it had referred to items extracted from his computer.

He also argued that in his MACC statement, the deceased admitted to have issued certain letters without instructions from his superior, Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah.

"It is relevant to prove the mental state of the deceased, and it shows linkages to the note," he said.

Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas, however, said that Abdul Razak was not in the position to determine the deceased's state of mind and that only an expert witness could do so.

At the same time, he added, it had not been conclusively proven that the note was indeed written by Teoh.

Continuing his testimony, Ahmad Nazri said he believed that a Selangor state assembly office notebook used to obtain samples of Teoh's handwriting for comparison belonged to the deceased.

He said this was because the notebook was found in Teoh's bag, without any evidence to show that it had been planted.

Suicide note or not?

Earlier, handwriting expert Wong Kong Yong testified that the Bahasa Malaysia handwriting on the note was by the same person who had written in the notebook, while the Chinese characters were "most probably" by the same person.

Ahmad Nazri also concurred with Abdul Razak's suggestion that the note was introduced in court so late in the inquest as it had to wait for Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand for eight months before he could take the stand.

The Teoh family's lawyer Gobind Singh Deo objected to the statement, saying, "Who is on the stand now?"

To Gobind's question on the note, Ahmad Nazri said that he did not know if it indeed was a suicide note, as suggested by Abdul Razak.

"I did not say it was not a suicide note... I'm not sure."

However, he said, the psychiatrist involved in the tests conducted on Teoh's family had told him that a suicide note would contain a person's reason for committing the act and an apology.

Ahmad Nazri is the final witness to take the stand, as the coroner has ruled that the testimonies collected have been exhaustive.

"No new testimonies can change the situation," he said.

As such, the inquest will not be entertaining Abdul Razak's request to hear the testimonies of the directors of the companies linked to the four quotations found in Teoh's laptop.

The final written submissions are to be filed on Dec 10, while oral submissions will be heard on Dec 17.

Meanwhile, a man was escorted out of the courtroom for loudly uttering the word "stupid" several times, believed to be directed at Abdul Razak.

The man, a regular in the public gallery, had previously been seen repeatedly questioning Abdul Razak on his qualifications and offering the lawyer lessons in English.