Second DNA test proposed

Friday September 21, 2007

SHAH ALAM: The DNA of the dead girl stuffed in the sports bag matches that of taxi driver Jazimin Abdul Jalil and his wife Norazian Bistaman.

But Jazimin is adamant the dead girl is not his missing eight-year-old daughter Nurin Jazlin.

The police have now proposed a second DNA test to confirm the identity of the dead girl.

Nurin Jazlin Jazimin's mother Norazian Bistaman consoling her husband Jazimin Abdul Jalil at the Forensics Department at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital on Thursday. A second DNA test will be conducted to ascertain if the body of the dead girl (top mugshot) is Nurin (bottom mugshot). - Kamarul Ariffin / The Star

Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed that the results of the DNA test done on the blood sample taken from the dead girl matched that of Jazimin, 33, and his wife Norazian, 35.

The results were released by the Forensics Department about 2pm yesterday.

“We called the parents for a second identification of the body to determine if she was indeed their daughter. But the parents still insisted after the second viewing that she was not Nurin.

“So, police have suggested that a second round of DNA tests be conducted. This time, we will also take blood samples from one of Nurin’s siblings and another close relative, possibly a grandparent,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

Asked why the parents have refused to accept the body as that of Nurin's, he said: “It’s hard to say ... as parents, maybe it’s difficult to accept.

“The DNA test shows it is Nurin's body but the parents say it is not her. So, we cannot make any confirmation,” he added.

Jazimin and his wife Norazian, seated between two of their daughters, and a relative (left) waiting at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur mortuary on Thursday to re-identify the body of the girl who was found in the sports bag.

DCP Khalid said police were also trying to get Nurin’s dental records for a comparison with the body for further confirmation.

He said police would also seek the opinion of doctors on the missing BCG mark on the body if it was proven that she was a Malaysian child.

Jazimin said he wanted the police to pursue the search for Nurin “because I know she is still safe out there.”

“I am Nurin’s father ... I know my daughter better than anyone else. My heart is saying that the dead girl is not my daughter.

“If police insist that I take the body, I will do it. I will perform the funeral rites and bury her,” Jazimin told reporters outside the KL Hospital mortuary yesterday.

Nurin has been missing since Aug 20 when she went to a night market near her home

in Wangsa Maju on her own. She was last seen being dragged into a white van by a man.

On Monday, an employee of a book distribution company found a sports bag at the bottom of a staircase of a shoplot in PJS1/48, Petaling Utama and brought it into her workplace, thinking that it belonged to her boss.

Her boss later opened the bag and discovered the naked body of a girl, believed to between six and nine-years-old in a foetal position in the brand new bag.

Police later found bruise marks on her neck, suggesting strangulation, and a brinjal and a cucumber inserted in her private parts.