Zara’s mum denies abusive diary entries reflect daughter’s feelings

Zara Qairina Mahathir's mother, Noraidah Lamat, testified at a coroner's court in Kota Kinabalu that her daughter had never mentioned any issues with her friends or anyone else. Noraidah claimed she had no knowledge of the abusive diary entries presented to the court, as she had never seen them in her daughter's notebooks before.

Although Zara often wrote about her friendships and daily life, Noraidah stated that her daughter typically expressed her feelings through greeting cards, such as birthday, Mother's Day, and "Zara loves Mama" cards. When presented with a diary entry containing the phrase "I have no mother," Noraidah disagreed that it reflected her daughter's feelings towards her, emphasizing that she had never seen Zara write in such a manner.

When questioned on the matter of the entry's authorship, Noraidah admitted it could have been written by someone else, as it contained her full name and the word "mother." Noraidah also disagreed that other crude and abusive entries in the diary reflected her daughter's feelings, stating that anyone could have written them in such a manner.