KOTA KINABALU: A teacher at SMKA Tun Datu Mustapha told the Coroner’s Court she had no intention of exposing Zara Qairina Mahathir’s private matters when she read and shared the contents of the student’s diaries.
Yuslina Badrum said on Friday that she believed her actions were part of assisting the investigation, though she acknowledged sharing the scanned pages with administrators rather than authorities.
She told the Court the diaries contained personal reflections, including Zara’s friendships and aspirations, and admitted she would not like her own belongings being treated the same way.
Yuslina disagreed with a suggestion from counsel that teachers viewed Zara as a problematic student or that the school was trying to avoid liability by withholding the diary from her mother.
She also rejected claims that anyone from the school leaked diary pages that later surfaced on TikTok, saying she did not know who was behind the account that posted them.
