KOTA KINABALU, Sept 11 — Two washing machines at the religious boarding school where 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir, unconscious on July 16 was found, were toploaders with a 7.5kg load capacity.
Lawyer Datuk Ram Singh, who was among the 60 people entourage who visited the school as the “locus in quo” site visit dismissed the possibility that she could have fit into the washing machine.
“We did see the washing machine. There were two. It was a 7.5kg domestic top-load machine. Even Miss Goh (my colleague) couldn’t fit inside. I don’t think Zara would have either,” he told reporters here.
Zara measured 153cm in height and had weighed 53kg.
Earlier, the entourage inspected the site including the third floor where Zara allegedly fell from in the early hours of July 16 and conducted several simulations of the fall.
Speaking after a site visit and fall simulations at the Papar school, Ram said the entourage wanted to determine the impact and the distance from the fall.
“The body was found on the ground, near the drain but not in it. I don’t think she could have fit in the drain,” he said.
The team also examined the suspended grill near the third floor of the hostel which she could have held on to had she been standing on the railing. He also reconfirmed that there were no CCTVs found at the site and he did not notice any public phones nearby.
Previously, a TikTok video went viral claiming that Zara had been put into a washing machine to wash off any evidence.
It was later revealed that the content creator, a 39-year-old secondary school teacher, invented the claims for “content”.
Siti Hajar Aflah Sharuddin was charged in the Magistrates’ Court in Sepang on August 21 for causing public alarm for allegedly spreading unverified information.
Zara Qairina, 13, was pronounced dead at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on July 17.
She had been admitted a day earlier after being found unconscious in a drain near her school dormitory in Papar at 4am.
