We heard testimony from Dr Khairul with regards to the nature of how Teoh Beng Hock fell. Based on thr nature and location of injuries he concluded that Teoh fell and landed on his feet. In the same report, there was also a mention of a fractured skull, multiple internal injuries including a likely tension hemothorax.
The laws of physics do not change. When an object falls from a height, the heaviest portion will lead the direction of falll, unless he had a parachute. The skull remains the heaviest part of the body and when humans fall from a height the tendency is for it to turn and go head down. One cannot control that when ‘inflight’.
Fracturing a skull will usually leave an external wound as the force to crack the skull will be tremendous. The graphic depiction of external injuries did not reveal any wounds on the head, something I found perplexing. The forces needed to fracture the legs are considerably less and could be sustained on impact despite not landing on his feet.
With such extensive body injuries, concluding that there was no struggle is at best a guess and not medical science. Depending on the degree of struggle the injuries are variable. Whether the fall led to his death remains a valid question and may never be uncovered. The gruesome injuries as a result of the fall could have masked any subtle clues of prior injuries.
Unfortunately our forensic science is certainly not up to par. I find the conclusions a result of partiality and lacks depth in its analysis.
