IPOH, Nov 8 — The High Court was told that Muhammad Zaharif Affendi Muhd Zamrie's heart had stopped beating before cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was given to him.
Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital assistant medical officer Mohammad Nor Shazree Shahrun Nizam, 31, said he did CPR on the victim because his heart had stopped beating.
He said CPR was performed for the medical team to analyse the victim’s heart rhythm and check if the pulse was still there.
"When the heart stops, we will continue with CPR for about 15 minutes, and if after 15 minutes there is still no heartbeat, we will stop doing CPR," Shazree said.
Shazree, the eighth prosecution witness, said this when cross-examined by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Afzainizam Abdul Aziz on the fourth-day trial of DSP Mohd Nazri Abdul Razak, who is charged with the murder of student Zaharif, 17, on December 15 last year.
When asked by Afzainizam whether the victim's heartbeat was still there when CPR was performed, he said the heart stopped and he did the chest pressure.
Shazreealso told the court that he would continue to perform CPR on Zaharif even if the victim had broken ribs if the heart stopped beating.
If CPR is done correctly, rib fractures can be avoided, he said when lawyer M. Athimulan, representing Nazri, suggested that repeated pressure on the victim's chest caused the rib fractures.
Meanwhile, when reading his witness statement, Shazree said upon arriving at SMK Jati at 12.15pm on December 15, he found a boy at the intersection on the shoulder of the road near the school.
He found that the boy had been given respiratory treatment by another person, believed to be his sister, and he then continued to provide respiratory emergency treatment using the CPR method.
“I examined him and found that the child had died. There was no sign of life, like no pulse, no pupil dilation and no breathing. There was blood on his face and hands," Shazree said.
He pronounced the victim dead at 12.32pm and then left the location.
Nazri, 45, is accused of murdering Zaharif along Jalan Taman Jati 1, near SMK Jati, between 11.45am and 12.40pm on December 15, 2023.
He is charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code, which carries the death penalty or imprisonment of between 30 and 40 years, with a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane upon conviction.
The prosecution in the case, besides Afzainizam, are DPPs Nasrul Hadi Abdul Ghani, V. Suloshani, and Low Qin Hui, while lawyers representing Nazri, besides Athimulan, are Datuk Mior Faridalathrash Wahid and Aiman Hakim Kamaruzzaman.
The trial before Judge Datuk Bhupindar Singh Gucharan Singh Preet continues on Monday (November 11).
— Bernama
