The lawyer representing the family of the Ahmad Sarbani Mohamad said he had found it difficult to lift himself onto the window that the Customs officer had allegedly climbed through before falling to his death.

NONE Counsel Awtar Singah said this to reporters after joining coroner Aizatul Akmal Maharani, court officials, police forensic experts and family members of the late Selangor Customs Department assistant director for a visit to the scene of death.

Ahmad Sarbani was found dead on April 6 this year on the badminton court of the Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Anti-Corruption Comission building in Jalan Cochrane.

He had gone there in connection with a probe, for which his statement had been recorded earlier.

NONE Awtar, who is slightly above 1.8m in height, said he had tried to lift himself up the window sill of the third floor pantry from which Ahmad Sarbani fell.

“I tried. It was not easy,” he said.

   

The coroner and others spent about 90 minutes touring various parts of the building where Ahmad Sarbani was last seen alive.

Of particular interest were the third floor witness room and an office where Ahmad Sarbani had spent some time, as well as the pantry.

The entourage also took a peek at the control room where the CCTV output screens from various cameras monitoring the building are located.

   

‘Not easy, but not impossible’

                   

Awtar's experiment was in response to testimony by DSP Shahrul Othman Mansur yesterday, who had led the Bukit Aman forensics crime scene investigation team in the case.

Shahrul said Ahmad Sarbani fell while trying to exit the building through the pantry window.

While acknowledging that the window is quite high - located 93cm from the floor - Awtar posited that a tall individual could swing his leg onto the sill unassisted.

However, M NONE ACC lawyer Mohammad Shafee Abdullah maintained that, while it is difficult, a person can still get over the high window sill.

“It is not easy, but not impossible,” he told reporters.

Mohammad Shafee ( left ) said the site visit was significant as the lawyers and deputy public prosecutors assisting the coroner can now see for themselves what the location is really like.

“It is very significant. Prior to this we were only shown photos and diagrams, (and) those are cold. But now we can see things in 3D,” he explained.

The inquest will resume at 9am tomorrow when Shahrul will again take the stand to be questioned by Awtar.