Zara Qairina feared worse bullying if mother confronted seniors, inquest told

Zara Qairina Mahathir discouraged her mother from confronting senior students at her hostel, fearing increased bullying.

Her mother, Noraidah Lamat, trusted the school administration despite concerns about bullying incidents.

Zara Qairina died after a bullying incident at her school, prompting an ongoing inquest into the circumstances of her death.

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 9 — The late Zara Qairina Mahathir had once stopped her mother from confronting senior students at her school hostel, fearing that doing so would expose her to even worse bullying.

Her mother, Noraidah Lamat, 46, the 81st witness in the inquest into her daughter’s death, said she had proposed a meeting involving the hostel warden, security guard, the senior students concerned and Zara Qairina to clarify the issues her daughter had raised.

However, she said Zara Qairina disagreed with the proposal, fearing reprisals from the senior students.

“My daughter stopped me. She said something like, ‘Please don’t do it, Mum. They might treat me even worse. They have a gang, a big gang, in the hostel,’” she told Coroner Amir Shah Amir Hassan here today.

Noraidah was responding to questions from lawyer Joan Goh, who represents one of the teenagers accused in the bullying case involving Zara Qairina, about the steps she had taken after receiving her daughter’s complaints concerning senior students at the hostel.

Asked why she had not met the school principal or warden to address the complaints, Noraidah said she continued to trust the school administration despite her daughter’s earlier reluctance to let her intervene.

“I still trusted the school administration because it is a renowned school in Sabah... a religious school,” she said.

Joan then pointed out that Zara Qairina’s complaints about problems with senior students were not isolated incidents, a point Noraidah agreed with.

However, when asked why she had not approached the school authorities despite receiving repeated complaints, Noraidah said she had never imagined that a serious bullying incident resulting in her daughter’s death could happen at the school.

Zara Qairina died at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on July 17, 2025, a day after she was found unconscious near a drain at her school dormitory in the early hours of the morning.

The inquest proceedings resume this afternoon. — Bernama

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Zara Qairina Mahathir 不鼓励她的母亲与宿舍里的高年级学生发生冲突，因为她担心会加剧欺凌行为。

尽管担心校园欺凌事件，但她的母亲诺拉伊达·拉马特仍然信任学校管理部门。

Zara Qairina 在学校遭遇霸凌事件后死亡，目前正对其死亡情况进行调查。

哥打基纳巴卢，10 月 9 日讯——已故的扎拉·凯里娜·马哈蒂尔曾阻止她的母亲在学校宿舍与高年级学生对峙，因为她担心这样做会使她遭受更严重的欺凌。

她的母亲诺拉伊达·拉马特（Noraidah Lamat），46岁，是调查她女儿死亡的调查中的第81位证人。她说，她曾提议召开一次会议，邀请宿舍管理员、保安、相关高年级学生和扎拉·凯里纳（Zara Qairina）参加，以澄清她女儿提出的问题。

然而，她说 Zara Qairina 不同意这个提议，担心遭到高年级学生的报复。

“我女儿阻止了我。她说，‘妈妈，求你别这么做。他们可能会对我更不好。宿舍里有个团伙，一个很大的团伙，’”她今天在这里告诉验尸官阿米尔·沙阿·阿米尔·哈桑。

Noraidah 是在回答律师 Joan Goh 的提问时做出上述表态的。Joan Goh 是 Zara Qairina 欺凌案中被指控的青少年之一的代理律师，她询问 Noraidah 在收到女儿关于宿舍高年级学生的投诉后采取了哪些措施。

当被问及为何没有与校长或舍监见面处理这些投诉时，诺拉伊达表示，尽管女儿之前不愿让她介入，但她仍然信任学校的管理部门。

“我仍然信任学校的管理，因为这是一所沙巴州的知名学校……一所宗教学校，”她说。

琼随后指出，扎拉·凯里娜对高年级学生问题的抱怨并非孤立事件，诺拉伊达对此表示赞同。

然而，当被问及为何在多次收到投诉后仍未与学校当局联系时，诺拉伊达表示，她从未想过学校里会发生一起严重的欺凌事件，导致她的女儿死亡。

2025 年 7 月 17 日，Zara Qairina 在伊丽莎白女王医院去世。此前一天凌晨，有人发现她昏迷在学校宿舍附近的排水沟旁。

死因研讯将于今天下午继续进行。——马新社

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