
A witness told the Kota Kinabalu coroner’s court today that those working at SMKA Tun Datu Mustapha were afraid to go out in public after being attacked on social media over Form One student Zara Qairina Mahathir’s death.
Asnie Marjan, a former senior assistant for student affairs at the school, said many baseless accusations had been hurled online at the teachers.
“Many of the teachers have deleted their Facebook accounts. Some of them were afraid to go to the shopping mall, shops or market,” Berita Harian reported him as saying at the inquest into the teenager’s death today.
Asnie, who now works as an officer at the Papar education office, was responding to lawyer Shahlan Jufri, who represents Zara’s family.
He said the school administration had done its best in the…