KUALA LUMPUR — Australian authorities have discovered that Malaysian-born Australian resident Annapuranee Jenkins also known as Anna Jenkins suffered blunt force trauma to her head, leg and finger prior to her death in 2017.
According to Australian media outlet ABC News, a forensic analysis report produced by Forensic Science South Australia found that all three “defects” appeared to have been caused by blunt trauma with a “penetrating component.”
The news site also quoted Anna’s son Greg Steven Jenkins, who said that the report confirms his belief that his late mother had met with “foul play” when she went missing in December 2017 before her remains were discovered in June 2020.
On June 29, Greg had filed a writ of summons at them Kuala Lumpur High Court, here to seek damages from the police and Malaysian government over its allegedly negligent acts during the investigation into his mothers’ death.
This came after the Penang Coroner’s Court had on May 12 delivered an open verdict into Annapuranee’s sudden death, with coroner Norsalha Hamzah saying that the lengthy inquest failed to establish a conclusive outcome to the case.
Greg had subsequently filed a revision to the open court verdict rendered by the coroner court, reiterating claims about discrepancies in the investigation into her disappearance and death.
During the inquest proceedings, various allegations were made by Malaysian police, including the 65-year-old Annapuranee being involved in drug trafficking and a family feud. Greg has since denied such claims, arguing that his mother was an average, caring and pious housewife.
South Australian lawmaker Frank Pangallo had also labeled the inquest as a farce, asserting that the coronial sitting did not cover all bases of the case, such as having disallowed the family counsel to cross-examine the majority of witnesses summoned.
Pangallo has since brought Annapuranee’s case to the Australian senate for deliberations while the family has also met with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, who is also the Adelaide MP, to discuss the matter.
Annapuranee disappeared along Scotland Road in Georgetown, Penang in 2017 and despite the efforts of her family, she was never found.
Some three years later, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Annapuranee’s partial skeletal remains and some personal belongings were found at a construction site next to the Penang Turf Club, some 3km from Scotland Road. — August 16, 2023