THE horrifying final moments of 32-year-old Smaelmeeral Abdul Aziz before she fell to her death in July last year were reconstructed in the High Court.She had been assaulted at the bus stop and an analysis of the bloodstain pattern revealed that her bleeding got worse as she moved to the lift landing.

On the way, she either spat out a broken tooth or was hit in the face to dislodge it. She was pulled into the lift and was either punched, slapped or kicked as it went up.She bled heavily there and the bloody shoe prints of her attacker started trailed from there.On the 13th floor, the assailant moved her rather quickly to the common corridor as seen by the scattered blood drops on the floor.

Then, she was hurt again, this time more seriously before her fatal plunge at about 4am.Her husband, Tharema Vejayan Govindasamy, 40, who is being tried for murdering her, is claiming diminished responsibility as he had been a victim of a black magic spell cast by her family.

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