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A grieving mother has expressed deep remorse in court over her decision to enrol her daughter at a religious boarding school in Kota Kinabalu, where the teenager subsequently died under disputed circumstances.
A Kota Kinabalu coroner's court has heard testimony that hundreds of pages were removed from a journal belonging to the late Zara Qairina Mahathir, with investigators unable to rule out the possibility of deliberate tampering with the document.
A handwriting expert testifying at the Kota Kinabalu Coroner's Court has indicated that certain documents linked to Zara Qairina Mahathir were not written by the teenager, raising fresh questions about the documentary evidence in the case.