12 October 2012

Jealousy Suspected In Murder Of Trader


LAHAD DATU: Police have arrested a 35-year-old Filipino who was allegedly involved in the murder of a Pakistani trader at Kampung Ubi, Jalan Segama here recently.

District police chief Superintendent Shamsudin Mat yesterday said the victim often came to the house of the suspect to sell clothes and collect debts from his family.

“The suspect then became suspicious and suspected that the victim had an affair with his wife.

“As the suspect was too angry, he planned to kill the victim. Anger and jealousy are believed to be the main motive for the murder,” Shamsudin said at a press conference yesterday.

He added on Sept 28, the police received information there was a body of a man in the bush in the yard of an unnumbered house at Batu 4, Kampung Ubi.

Initial investigation revealed that the man was stabbed and hacked to death. Shamsudin said the police also found the victim’s shirt and a machete, believed to be the murder weapon, at the scene.

He said the body was then sent to the district hospital for a post-mortem before being brought to his country of origin.

On Wednesday, a police team from the Crime Investigation Department raided an unnumbered house at Permodalan 2 Plantation, Jalan Jeroco, at 9pm and arrested the Filipino.

The police also detained the suspect’s wife and son to assist in their investigation.

Shamsudin added the suspect was now in the police custody and remanded under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code for further investigation under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

Also present at the press conference was Assistant Superintendent Ang Seow Aun who is the case’s investigation officer.


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