Lawyer Eric Paulsen, who appeared for the family of custodial death victim P Karuna Nithi, told the Seremban High Court today that the testimony of the pathologist who conducted the postmortem on the deceased was flawed.

During submissions at the hearing of the revision application made by the Attorney-General’s Chambers to overturn the coroner's verdict in the case, Paulsen insisted that the coroner – who had ruled that Karuna Nithi was beaten to death by police personnel and inmates – did not err because pathologist Dr Sharifah Safoorah Syed Alwee’s testimony was flawed.

“She herself accepted that Karuna Nithi had a mild liver disease and mild liver disease cannot lead to death.

“She considered there were 49 injuries, even though at the end of the day she still maintained (that the cause of death was) fatty change of the liver, without basis,” Paulsen told Malaysiakini...