Expert Witness Outlines Scenarios of Teoh’s Fall

KUALA LUMPUR, An expert witness today outlined scenarios of Teoh Beng Hock's fall based on scientific analysis to the Comission of Inquiry investigating the death of the political aide. Prof Sallehuddin Muhamad, a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia's (UTM mechanical engineering faculty, said he was asked by the commission's independent investigator Michael Leslie Squires to analyse Teoh's fall at Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam using scientific techniques. He said based on his analysis, there were two likely scenarios of how Teoh fell to his death. One, he said, was with the air resistance effect or a free fall to the ground at an angle of 4.75 degrees and the other without the effect, whereby Teoh could have been pushed out of the window horizontally or downwards. Sallehuddin, who also specializes in aircraft accident investigations, said the first scenario would indicate suicide and the second homicide. He said under the first, it would be likely that Teoh sat on the window ledge before free-falling to his death. He discounted the possibility that Teoh could have jumped out of the window as its size did notpermit this. Teoh, 30, who was the political aide of Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, was found dead on the fifth floor corridor of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009, after being questioned overnight at the Selangor MACC office read more:http://www.malaysiandigest.com