Dang Wangi police sergeant Haliza Hamdan, the 20th witness to take the stand, was unable to produce a temporary receipt issued by the Chemistry Department on Dec 8 last year.

Haliza earlier today said she had gone to the Chemistry Department to pass some of Smit’s personal belongings, including her passport, purse and clothing for DNA sampling, and submit her blood and urine samples for testing.

The system was down that day, she claimed, and so a temporary receipt was issued.

She added that she later received a call on Dec 12 to come and collect the official receipt and results of the DNA sampling and testing.

However, she was unable to find the temporary receipt in the court’s copy of receipts provided by the Chemistry Department, which visibly irked SN Nair, the lawyer holding a watching brief for the Smits.

After proceedings this afternoon passed the one-hour mark, Nair stood up to interrupt deputy public prosecutor N Joy Jothi’s examination of Haliza and said the witness was deliberately misleading the court and fibbing.

“She’s not telling the whole truth despite being under oath. She can’t produce any evidence or proof affirming her claims,” he told Coroner Mahyon Talib.

“She is clearly lying,” Nair repeated to pin-drop silence, to which Haliza said she had made a note of the receipt being issued in a personal notebook, but admitted she could not find that either.

At this point, Jothi told Mahyon that it was getting late and requested that the inquest be adjourned for the day, to resume tomorrow morning with Haliza taking the stand once more.

She will be questioned by Nair.

Earlier today, Haliza testified that she was issued the temporary receipt at around 3.40pm on Dec 8, shortly after the post-mortem of Smit’s body commenced at around noon at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur morgue.

She said she received it from a Chemistry Department staff after Smit’s post-mortem was done. Jothi told her the pathologist who had conducted the autopsy testified previously that she took seven hours to do this.

Haliza then clarified that she meant she collected this receipt after the first set of photographs were taken by the pathologist, but insisted she received the receipts and signed off on some forms “once the post-mortem finished”.

She also said she provided the Chemistry Department two sets of bathrobes, an empty Apple Cider beer bottle and one half of a broken glass bottle for testing, which she received from the Forensics Department.

Haliza was the initial investigating officer for the case.

Today is the 13th day of the inquest.

Smit is believed to have fallen on the afternoon of Dec 7 last year from a 20th-floor condo belonging to an American-Kazakh couple she had befriended at the time, Alex Johnson and Luna Almaz.

Police had originally classified the case as sudden death, but it was re-opened this year after pressure from Smit’s family, who claimed that there were elements of foul play and cover up.

The inquest is under way to determine the facts and events leading up to Smit’s sudden death and whether there is enough evidence to reopen the case and eventually bring it to trial.

During this morning’s proceedings, DNA specialist Nor Aidora Saedon testified that she found no sperm cells in an inner lining of a used condom discovered at the 20th-floor condo, saying chemicals in the condom probably “killed them”.

She said the three sets of DNAs found on the outer condom lining — belonging to Smit, Luna and Alex — could have come from any body part, not just their genitals.

Nor Aidora also agreed with Nair that it would only be possible for Alex and Luna’s DNA to end up under Smit’s fingernails if she had scratched them.

She reiterated that all the samples she received from the police at the Chemistry Department office in Petaling Jaya for her to analyse were sealed and in good condition, as testified by her previously.

These items, which have already been produced in court, include a peach-coloured dildo used by the trio, at least two brightly-coloured sex toys, one used condom, and several undergarments.

The Johnsons had told a UK daily that they engaged in threesomes with Smit on multiple occasions and were regular sex partners.

Luna, specifically, also told The Daily Mail that she had sex with Smit just hours before she wound up dead.

Both have not shown up to testify in the inquest, despite being subpoenaed. They are currently in the US.

They maintain they are innocent, despite being the last two to see Smit before she fell off their balcony on the afternoon of Dec 7.

Smit moved to Malaysia when she was three years old and lived for 13 years in Penang with her paternal grandparents.

Her body was repatriated to the Netherlands where she was laid to rest in her birth town of Roermond on Dec 30 amid international coverage and scrutiny.