KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 3 -- The younger brother of Noorizwan Zulkefly has rejected police allegations that the family's legal team intimidated a hospital forensic specialist, calling on authorities to halt investigations against their lawyers and keep public scrutiny fixed on his brother's custodial death.

In a media statement released today, Nooranis Zulkefly insisted that he attended the briefing in person and observed the forensic medicine consultant presenting and explaining his brother's post-mortem photographs without any coercion, hostility, or pressure from their legal representatives.

"My wife, the three lawyers and two police officers from Bukit Aman were all present at the meeting with the forensic specialist doctor.

"During the...