Dutch autopsies show injuries on model inconsistent with fall: Report

PETALING JAYA: The family of Ivana Smit has asked the Dutch Public Prosecution Service to investigate the model's death in Kuala Lumpur.
Two autopsies were done on Ivana's body by the Dutch authorities. Dutch forensic pathologist Frank de Groot did a first autopsy and found that some of her injuries are not consistent with a fall from a great height, the Telegraaf reported yesterday.
A second autopsy was done in Alkmaar. Again, injuries inconsistent with a fall were found, Van de Groot said.
The report said further investigations were being carried out and the results are expected in early January.
"Ivana was Dutch. So the Dutch government also has the heavy responsibility of finding out how she died. Especially if the country in which she died fails", Sebas Diekstra, the lawyer helping the Smit family in this case, told the Telegraaf.
The report said the Smit family spent Christmas day in a funeral home in Roermond, where some family members saw Ivana's body for the first time.
"That was terrible. An incredibly confrontational and emotional day," Ivana's uncle Fred Agenjo, who acts as spokesperson for the family since her father Marcel had a heart attack, told the newspaper.
"It was one of the worst things I've experienced. It is now three weeks since she died. Then the remains still have the shape of a body, but it is no longer Ivana. The funeral director did her utmost, but it was very difficult."
In the Dec 7 incident, Ivana,19 was found dead on the balcony of the sixth floor of an apartment building in Jalan Dang Wangi, where she had stayed with an American and his wife from Kazakhstan on the 20th floor.
Her naked body was found on a balcony on the 6th floor. Earlier, she was reported to have gone out to an entertainment outlet with the couple.