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‘Death by Misadventure!’ Malaysian coroner’s ruling of ‘NO crime’ riles family as inquest hears Dutch model who fell 14 floors from a balcony was dead BEFORE she fell – Ivana Smit, 18, died after threesome with US couple at their Kuala Lumpur apartment

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Smit reportedly fell from thher host&&num;8217&semi;s balcony at around 10am&period; Her naked body was not found for another five hours&comma; at around 3pm<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Smit family don&&num;8217&semi;t believe the model could have fallen off the balcony hours after she died<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The disbelieving family&&num;8217&semi;s are upset after hearing at the ruling of an accidental death&comma; with the coroner ruling NO crime was committed&comma; even as the inquest confirmed the teen <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>was dead BEFORE she fell <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Dutch model Ivana Smit&comma; 18&comma; was found dead in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 2017&comma; reportedly falling off the <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>from 20th-floor balcony <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>after threesome with US couple<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>She apparently fell 14 floors from the <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Malaysian apt <&sol;strong><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>of  of US tycoon Alexander Amado Johnson&comma; 45&comma; and wife Luma Amaz&comma; 31<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Malaysian coroner said friday agreed with Dutch pathologist&&num;8217&semi;s findings &&num;8211&semi; evidence of assault&comma; but still ruled no crime had been committed&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>They found she had died before she fell and there was evidence of struggle<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Had trauma to the back of her head&comma; bruises and Johnson&&num;8217&semi;s DNA under nails<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Despite this&comma; coroner ruled that no crime had been committed in the incident <&sol;strong><&sol;span><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-309993" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Ivana-Smit-6-300x293&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"745" height&equals;"728" &sol;>The naked body of Dutcch model Ivana Smit&comma; 18&comma; was discovered on the sixth floor of an upmarket high rise in Kuala Lumpur&comma; having fallen from an apt on the 20th floor<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The family of a Dutch model who died after a drug-fuelled swingers party in Malaysia have expressed their outrage after a coroner ruled she was dead before she fell from a 20th floor apartment &&num;8211&semi; but that no crime had been committed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The naked body of Ivana Smit&comma; 18&comma; was discovered on the sixth floor of an upmarket high rise in Kuala Lumpur on December 7&comma; 2017&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She had been partying at the home of US tycoon Alexander Amado Johnson&comma; 45&comma; and his wife Luna Almaz&comma; 31&comma; who claim they had been having sex with the teenager in the hours before her death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A Malaysian coroner Friday&comma; said there was evidence of a struggle&comma; including trauma to the back of her head and the DNA of Mr Amado Johnson being found under her fingernails&comma; but still ruled no crime had been committed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;This was slammed by the Smit family&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer&comma; who told reporters&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Surely a dead body can&&num;8217&semi;t walk over and take a dive&quest; Somebody threw her body down&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Luna-and-Alexander-Amado-Johnson-1-1&period;png&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C602&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Luna-and-Alexander-Amado-Johnson-1-1&period;png&quest;zoom&equals;1&period;100000023841858&amp&semi;resize&equals;580&percnt;2C563&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Luna and Alexander Amado Johnson 1&period;png" width&equals;"580" height&equals;"563" &sol;><strong> Alexander Amado Johnson&comma; 45&comma; and Luna Almaz&comma; 31&comma; claimed they had assumed Ms Smit had left their apt &&num;8211&semi; despite her belongings remaining there<&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-310002" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Alexander-Amado-Johnson-and-Ivana-Smit-1-300x168&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1395" height&equals;"781" &sol;>The couple were seen together with the victim hours earlier&colon;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">At 5&period;22am on December 7&comma; 2017&comma; cameras in a Kuala Lumpur club appear to show Johnson carrying Ms Smit in his arms through the hall toward an elevator bank&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Miss Smit&&num;8217&semi;s uncle Fred&comma; who has led the family campaign for justice for the teenager&comma; said he was disgusted by the fact the inquest had gone ahead&comma; without two main witnesses&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;The Johnsons should have been there to tell the world what happened in their own words&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;They was the last two people to see Ivana alive&period; Surely their evidence is more important than anything&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;So the question that still needs an answer is how can a dead body go over a balcony&quest; Why were they allowed to leave Malaysia on the first place and where are they now&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;The coroner has heard that Ivana was dead before she went over their balcony&period; There was evidence of a struggle and that she had injuries before she died&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Ivana-Smit-15&period;png&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C405&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;Ivana-Smit-15&period;png&quest;zoom&equals;1&period;100000023841858&amp&semi;resize&equals;580&percnt;2C379&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Ivana Smit 15&period;png" width&equals;"580" height&equals;"379" &sol;><strong>Findings&colon; A Malaysian coroner today said there was evidence of a struggle&comma; including trauma to the back of Miss Smit&&num;8217&semi;s head&comma; bruising&comma; and the DNA of Mr Amado Johnson was found under her fingernails&comma; but still ruled no crime had been committed<&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;persiaran-capsquare-1&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C375&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;persiaran-capsquare-1&period;jpg&quest;zoom&equals;1&period;100000023841858&amp&semi;resize&equals;580&percnt;2C351&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"persiaran-capsquare 1" width&equals;"580" height&equals;"351" &sol;><strong>Timeline discrepancy&colon; Local cops said Smit fell from the couple&&num;8217&semi;s balcony at around 10am&period; Her naked body was not found for another five hours&comma; at around 3pm&comma; nixing the explanation she fell over hours after<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">Police believe Ivana fell from the couple&&num;8217&semi;s balcony at around 10am&period; Her naked body was not found for another five hours&comma; at around 3pm<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&&num;8216&semi;So what went on in their flat&period; If she was dead&period; She didn’t just get up and throw herself from the balcony&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;This whole matter had been a disgrace and we have lost a beautiful young member of our family&period; We will not rest&period; I appeal to anybody who knows where the Johnsons are to tell the authorities&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;We will appeal this inquest and we will go in fighting for the Malaysian police to bring the Johnsons back so that can tell what happened&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-310004" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Ivana-Smit-5-300x298&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"916" height&equals;"910" &sol;>Critical&colon; The Smit family&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer criticised the ruling&comma; questioning how the coroner had accepted that the 18-year-old was likely killed in the apt and then concluded the death was &&num;8216&semi;misadventure&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>Handing down her ruling in Kuala Lumpur today&comma; Coroner Mahyon Talib acknowledged there may have been a struggle between Smit and the couple&comma; but ruled no one was criminally involved in causing the model&&num;8217&semi;s death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Grip marks on her arm&comma; the trauma at the back of her head&comma; the broken bottles and &lpar;American man&rpar; Alex&&num;8217&semi;s DNA under Ivana&&num;8217&semi;s nails suggest that there might have been a possibility that there was a struggle&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The coroner also agreed with a Dutch pathologist&comma; who had concluded Smit likely died in the apartment&comma; before her body was found on the sixth floor balcony&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We cannot know what actually happened between the three of them&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the coroner said&comma; adding that the death was being classified as &&num;8216&semi;misadventure&&num;8217&semi;&comma; meaning it was likely an accident&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her ruling was the conclusion of an inquest prompted by Miss Smit&&num;8217&semi;s family&&num;8217&semi;s complaints about the local police investigation&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>The Smit family&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer criticised the ruling&comma; questioning how the coroner had accepted that the 18-year-old was likely killed in the apartment and then concluded the death was &&num;8216&semi;misadventure&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"splitLeft">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-310000" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Alexander-Amado-Johnson-and-Luna-Almaz-6-300x287&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1145" height&equals;"1095" &sol;><strong>Johnson and Almaz&comma; who admitted to having sex with the teenager&comma; have left Malaysia and are believed to be in the United States<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Kuala Lumpur police ruled her death an accident or suicide&comma; but Ms Smit&&num;8217&semi;s family believe she was murdered&comma; resulting in the inquest being opened in 2018&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The family&&num;8217&semi;s lawyer has slammed the police investigation and accused the investigating officer of being biased towards Johnson and Almaz&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Johnson&comma; who is originally from Houston&comma; Texas&comma; and Almas are believed to be in the United States&comma; having left Malaysia via Singapore in March 2018&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On the evening and morning before her death Ms Smit spent several hours in the home of Johnson&comma; who works in cryptocurrency&comma; and Almaz&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Almaz and Johnson claim they both had sex with Ms Smit&comma; and that they had been having intimate relations with the Dutch model in the weeks leading up to her death&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Almaz claims the 18-year-old had told them she was 26&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At 5&period;22am on December 7&comma; cameras in a Kuala Lumpur club show Johnson carrying Ivana in his arms through a hallway&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At 7&period;30am&comma; Ms Smit sent her boyfriend a selfie of herself with Luna&comma; telling her she was &&num;8216&semi;chilling&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police believe that around two hours later&comma; at 10am&comma; Ivana plunged from Johnson&&num;8217&semi;s 20th-story balcony and landed on a six-story roof&period; Her body&comma; which was naked&comma; was not found until around 3pm that day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Two subsequent autopsies&comma; carried out in Malaysia and in the Netherlands&comma; found alcohol&comma; ecstasy and cocaine in her system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-310008" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Luna-Almaz-and-Ivana-Smit-1-296x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"1038" &sol;><strong>Timeline&colon; At 7&period;30am&comma; Ms Smit&comma; right&comma; sent her boyfriend this selfie of herself with Luna Almaz&comma; left&comma; just a few hours before her death<&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>The Dutch autopsy also found significant head bruising and multiple bruises on her arms&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Something happened before she fell from the balcony&period; Maybe she slipped or maybe someone hit her on the head&period; Bruises like this one are only possible when the heart is still beating&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Pathologist Frank van de Goot said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking to Dutch media last year&comma; Dr van de Goot said the lack of blood at the scene of the fall suggests the young model was dead before she fell&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her father&comma; Marcel Smit said he saw bruises on her neck &&num;8216&semi;like fingerprints&comma; as if someone had grabbed her there&&num;8217&semi; when he identified her body&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-310007" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;03&sol;Ivana-Smits-family-4-300x242&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"760" height&equals;"613" &sol;><strong>Inquest&colon; Ms Smit&&num;8217&semi;s grandparents&comma; left&comma; are accompanied by her uncle Fred Agenjo&comma; centre&comma; as they arrive at the Coroner&&num;8217&semi;s court in Kuala Lumpur at the opening of the inquest last year<&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">He told Dutch media&colon; &&num;8216&semi;At about 10am she would have fallen from the balcony at 20 floors high&period; How is that possible&quest; It is strange that she was not found until 3pm&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;She is tall&comma; 1&period;81 meters &lpar;5ft 11in&rpar;&comma; but the barrier is also 1&period;20 meters &lpar;4ft&rpar;&period; Only when you bend over&comma; do you fall off&period; She did not fall and did not jump either&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ms Smit was born in Sittard&comma; in the Netherlands but grew up in Malaysia with her grandparents Hendrik Smit&comma; 78&comma; and Susan&comma; 77&comma; before returning briefly to the Netherlands as a teenager&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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