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SINGAPORE: The trial of Mohammed Ali Johari for the murder of his 2-year-old step-daughter, Nurasyura Mohamed Fauzi or Nonoi, entered the second day.

Testifying in court on Thursday was Dr G Sathyadevan, the Chief of Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health.

Dr Sathyadevan, in his assessment of the accused in his psychiatric report, had described Ali as a "father at 17, a marijuana smoker, a cough syrup drinker and an immature, deficient parent".

Ali even confessed to the psychiatrist that he had brought Nonoi home with him at times, as "the presence of a child, would help him avoid detection by Central Narcotics Bureau officers".

In Ali's account of how Nonoi's death occurred, he said Nonoi was crying and so he slapped her in the face, legs and back.

When she didn't stop, he got angry and punched her in the leg and ribs.

When she still didn't stop, he pulled her up by her legs and dipped her head into the water repeatedly.

On the third time Nonoi's head was immersed in the pail, his mobile phone rang and he spoke to someone.

When he returned, she was dead.

But according to the prosecution, Ali's phone records showed that he did not receive any phone calls during the time of Nonoi's death, which took place between 3pm and 6pm on the 1st of March.

The defence, however, produced records showing Ali's phone could have rang, except that he didn't answer it and the call was subsequently forwarded.

Nonetheless, prosecution established that the call forwarding first occurred at 6:48pm, after Nonoi's estimated time of death.

And Dr Sathyadevan added that even though Ali was a drug abuser, a deficient parent, temperamental, and had a low IQ score of 89, he did not see why Ali had to deal with the difficult situation of incessant crying the way he did, "doing something so drastic that it's fatal."

Ali's siblings also took the stand to testify against him.

One brother said that on the day Nonoi went missing, he had seen Ali blame their father for her disappearance.

Another brother said he was punched in the face by Ali for not taking care of Nonoi.

All that time, Nonoi was already dead and her body hidden by Ali beneath a pile of rubbish under a flyover along Aljunied Road.

Her family had reported Nonoi missing on 1 March last year and forensic experts say that was the date she died.

And, the prosecution revealed on the first day of the trial that they have evidence to show that Nonoi was likely to have been sexually violated before her death.

By who? That was the question raised in court.

Ali's brother, Rahim, was sleeping in the same room as Nonoi and her brother Daniel on the day of her death.

So the defence lawyer asked Rahim if he had molested Nonoi that day, to which he replied he "won't do such a thing".

But one inconsistency was revealed during cross examination.

Rahim said that when he woke up that day, Nonoi was still sleeping but his girlfriend testified that the toddler was taken away by Ali while Rahim was still sleeping.

This means that Rahim should not have seen Nonoi when he woke up.

The trial continues on Monday when Nonoi's mother will take the stand to testify against her husband.