They also visited the construction site where her skeletal remains were found three years later.
The court first visited Hotel Jen on Magazine Road, and entered the sixth-floor twin-bedded room where Anna stayed with her husband in December 2017.
There, coroner Norsalha Hamzah queried hotel general manager Ody Odayappan about how outside calls were redirected to rooms. Ody said only those providing the names of guests had their calls connected to the rooms.
The coroner was then brought to the hotel’s foyer, where Anna had waited for an e-hailing ride that never arrived. The court was also shown how she walked across the road to a taxi stand near Bank Rakyat on Magazine Road. She was believed to have taken a ride from there to see her dentist.
The entourage of seven cars carrying the coroner, prosecutors, court staff, watching brief lawyers, and the Jenkins family then headed to Goh Dental Clinic on Burmah Road. They visited a surgery room where Anna had been treated before she took an Uber ride prior to her mysterious disappearance.
After the clinic, the court visited the Ramakrishna Ashram on Scotland Road, where Anna was last seen alighting from the same Uber vehicle. The coroner took note of a CCTV camera that was not directed at the spot where she was believed to have gotten out of her Uber, a Perodua Alza.
The site visit was supposed to end then, but on the insistence of the Jenkins’ family lawyer, Raveentharan Subramaniam, the court headed to Batu Gantong, where Jenkin’s skeletal remains were found three years after her disappearance.
The entourage, however, stopped outside a boom gate barring access to Lebuh Jesselton Selatan 5, about 300m from the actual site where the bones were first found.
Raveentharan then explained to the coroner that it was impossible for Anna to have walked from the Ashram to this point, as it was almost 2km away, and the access road was on a terraced hill.
“This is a grandmother aged 65, with a known asthmatic condition, carrying an inhaler,” he told the court which was in session on site.
The inhaler was previously spotted among the bone fragments on June 24, 2020, with a handbag containing an inhaler and other personal effects believed to belong to Anna.
The coroner then adjourned the five-day inquest, setting two weeks, from Oct 12-21, to continue hearing from three more witnesses and Anna’s son, Greg. To date, 14 witnesses have been called since April.
Khairul Anuar Abdul Halim, Yazid Mustaqim Roslan, Farah Aimy Zainul Anwar and Shahrezal Shukri assisted the coroner in the inquest, while Asmeeta Rajendran and Nur Adilla Zaharuddin also appeared for the Jenkins family.
Earlier, Greg laid a wreath at one of the terraced hills not far away from where his mother’s bones were found.