A witness told the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court that she saw a teenage girl with Down syndrome known as Bella lying on the floor of a laundry room in a condominium unit in Wangsa Maju without a blanket and mattress and there were burn marks on her neck.

Legal research officer at a law firm, Suhana Zam, 40, said she was on her way to dispose of the rubbish in the laundry room at 4am when she saw Bella lying on the floor without a blanket, pillow, mattress and she was not covered with anything.

“That night, I was...