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Examination of Mirna violated police chief regulation: Lawyers
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Murder suspect Jessica Kumala Wongso smiles while her lawyer speaks during a session of her trial at the Central Jakarta District Court on July 27. (Antara Foto/Yudhi Mahatma)
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lawyer of accused murderer Jessica Kumala Wongso, Otto Hasibuan, claimed that the examination of Wayan Mirna Salihin’s corpse was not done in accordance with National Police Chief Regulation No. 10/2009, which provides standards for examining poisoning victims.
Mirna's body was examined in the National Police's hospital in Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, on Jan. 9, three days after she died. Doctor Slamet Purnomo, who was in charge of the examination, only took a gastric sample for further study in the police forensic laboratory.
Otto said based on the police chief's regulation, doctors should take 100 grams of each of a victim’s organs, including the stomach, liver, kidneys, heart, adipose tissue and brain, and the forensic doctor should also take 25 milliliters of a victim’s urine and 10 milliliters of a victim’s blood.
“Some of those items were not examined, although according to the regulation it was compulsory. Based on the law, the taking of the body samples is performed by the doctor during an autopsy to obtain evidence. In this case, no autopsy was performed on Mirna,” Otto said in the trial hearing on Thursday.
A chemical toxicologist from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Indonesia, Budiawan, who appeared as an expert witness for the defense, said that the police examination of Mirna’s body was invalid.
Meanwhile, according to the same regulation, among the requirements in carrying out an examination of the evidence of poisoning is to obtain the container of the alleged poison. In this case, police failed to do so, Otto said. (bbn)
