Heroic bid to reclaim friend’s car ends in tragedy

Published: Friday October 25, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM

JOHOR BARU: A noodle seller’s heroic attempt to fight off thieves and reclaim his friend’s car ended in tragedy when he died of severe head injuries after being pushed out of the vehicle.

Zhu Beng Sheng, 68, was travelling in a car with a female friend on the way to her house in Taman Desa Cemerlang here when they were involved in an accident with another car on Wednesday night.

The woman who refused to be named, said prior to that the two of them had spent an enjoyable evening together.

“We were on the way back to my house and I was driving. I realised that there was a car tailgating us and before I could do anything, there was a loud bang.

“We stopped by the roadside and came out of the car to discuss with the driver of the car that had hit us,” she told reporters when met at the Hospital Sultan Ismail mortuary here yesterday.

However, she said, four men came out of the other car and started to shout at them and insisted that it was her fault.

“As we were arguing about the matter, I noticed two of the men walking towards my car, got into it and started to drive off,” she said.

Noticing that, Zhu rushed to the car’s front passenger seat and was seen struggling with one of the suspects in the moving vehicle.

“Within seconds, he was pushed out of the car onto the road while the suspects sped off in my car.

“I rushed to him but he was already lying there unconscious,” she said.

She said that a passer-by rushed Zhu to Hospital Sultan Ismail, where he slipped into a coma and was pronounced dead seven hours later.

Zhu’s son Liang Hui, 45, said that he was not surprised that his father had reacted that way to fight off the thieves.

“He always stood up for what he believed was right,” he said.

Meanwhile, Seri Alam OCPD Supt Roslan Zainuddin confirmed the case and said that police had yet to make any arrests.

“We are investigating the case under Section 302 for murder,” he said, urging anyone with information to contact the Johor police hotline at 07-2212 999 or visit the nearest police station.

Ambank security guard shoots colleague dead in robbery

Published: Friday October 25, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM 

BY ELIZABETH ZACHARIAH
OCTOBER 23, 2013

‎A screenshot of the security guard who shot Noazita, a mother of two, to death. The Malaysian Insider pic, October 23, 2013.A security guard shot dead a bank operations officer in a robbery at the Ambank branch in USJ Sentral, Subang Jaya today.

Norazita Abu Talib, 37, was shot once in the face with a pump-gun in the 6.20pm incident.

It is learnt that the victim was opening the door to the vault‎ when she was shot.

Norazita was a mother of two and had been working at Ambank for 16 years.

The security guard, who fled with an undisclosed amount of cash on a motorcycle, has been identified as a 37-year-old Sabahan with a fake IC.

Norazita Abu Talib. - The Malaysian Insider pic, October 23, 2013.Subang Jaya deputy superintendant Tan ‎Ah Chua was at the scene when contacted and confirmed the incident. But he declined to elaborate further.

State deputy police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Jaafar said the suspect was armed and considered to be dangerous, cautioning the public to stay vigil.

Meanwhile, police are looking for Ardi Hamza whose last known address is 70, Jalan Apas, Batu 2, ‎Tawau, Sabah to facilitate investigations.

Stabbing frenzy shatters housing estate's calm

Published: Friday October 25, 2013 MYT 12:00:00 AM 

KUALA LUMPUR: The morning peace in Taman Melati here was shattered when a cigarette delivery man went on a stabbing spree, killing two people and injuring two others.

His 40 minutes of terror began at about 11.20am when the 26-year-old man went in his van to a kiosk at the Gombak Putra LRT terminal to deliver a shipment of cigarettes.

Without warning, he pulled out a rambo knife and stabbed the outlet proprietor Lau Siew Ling, 49, and her woman helper Sulianti Johari, 31.

He then got into his vehicle and drove towards Jalan Pertahanan which is parallel to the Melati LRT station less than 2km away, and rammed into another van.

When the owner of the van, Lee Kah Ghee, 48, got out to investigate, the man stabbed him several times and left him to die on the busy road.

The man then got back into his van and drove a few hundred metres before colliding with a car driven by a college student.

He got out and confronted the student Kwan Chun Tai, 25, and stabbed him. Kwan ran, trying to escape the crazed killer.

The man chased him, caught him and stabbed him to death in Jalan Tumbuhan.

City deputy CID chief Asst Comm Khairi Ahrasa said a crowd of onlookers cornered the man.

“He was disarmed, beaten up and detained until police arrived and arrested him.

“The man has been taken to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for medical treatment and psychological evaluation,” he said.

He said the man was acting erratically when he was taken into custody.

“We believe he belongs to a cult, but have yet to verify this,” he added.

The bodies of the two dead have been taken to the same hospital for a post-mortem.

ACP Khairi said the case was being investigated under Section 302 and Section 326 of the Penal Code for murder and voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapons.

Those with information on the case should contact the police hotline 03-2115 9999 or go to the nearest police station.

Cosplay murder suspect: I don’t know why I did it

A photo of 15-year-old Ng Yuk Tim from her mother’s Facebook page.KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23, 2013 — The man suspected of being the alleged killer of 15-year-old Ng Yuk Tim after a Cosplay date gone wrong was unable to offer an answer today for what is probably the one question on the minds of the girl’s bereaved mother and the public.

“I don’t know,” he replied to questions from reporters when he was brought by police to the Petaling Jaya Magistrates Court for a remand hearing.

Reporters had asked him “why did you do this?” to which the man could only offer a reply that is not likely to comfort the family of Ng.

Asked if he regretted his actions, he offered: “It’s too late for me to regret.”

The bespectacled homely-looking Ng’s body was found yesterday stuffed in a green suitcase in Shah Alam, following a date with a man to make a Cosplay uniform

The man is being remanded by police until October 29 to help investigations into the murder.

Yesterday’s discovery of the body followed the arrest of the 23-year-old man.

Ng was believed to have met the man at his home in Petaling Jaya to put together a Cosplay uniform.

The man is thought to have made sexual advances towards her, and she was struck by dumbbell and killed after she resisted.

Ng had left her Bandar Tun Razak home around 11am on Monday and travelled by LRT to Kelana Jaya to meet the man.

The 23-year-old man had been brought to the Petaling Jaya police district headquarters yesterday evening for questioning.

It is understood that the man had led police to the discovery of the body.

It is also said that he has confessed to trying to rape the girl before striking her with a dumbbell, killing her on the spot.

The man initially claimed that he had dropped her off at the Kelana Jaya LRT station at about 3.30pm.

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Bodies of 2 men found in car near Senai Utara toll plaza

JOHOR BARU, Oct 18 — The bodies of two men believed to have been murdered were found in a car abandoned near the exit road from the Senai Utara toll plaza near Kulaijaya today.

The bodies of S. Visvanathan, 48, from Seremban, and M. Kalaiselvan Mudaliar, 38, from Kuala Lumpur, were found in a red Perodua Myvi at about 9 am, said Kulaijaya OCPD Supt Zulkefly Yahya.

Visvanathan’s body was in the front passenger seat and Kalaiselvan Mudaliar’s, in the back seat, he said, adding that there were bruises on the bodies suffered from beatings,” he said.

Zulkefly said police believed the men were attacked elsewhere and the bodies were placed in the car, registered under the name of an individual with a Seremban address, and abandoned about 300 metres from the toll plaza.

The bodies had been sent to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital here, he said.

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Murdered French tourist loved local customs, court told

Sunday May 26, 2013 MYT 3:03:36 PM

KUANTAN: Murdered French tourist Stephanie Foray said in her last conversation with her mother that she was in a small town in Malaysia after spending two days in Kuala Lumpur.

Irene Mortel, 50, told the High Court here that her daughter was a cheerful, friendly girl who loves sports.

She liked to learn all sorts of local customs, which was why she embarked on a journey overseas in the first place.

She added that Foray was unemployed as she had decided to take two years off to travel.

“I last saw her on Nov 8, 2010. We spent eight days together before I drove her to the airport for her departure to India,” said Mortel from Les Choux, France, through an interpreter.

Mortel said Foray kept in contact with her through e-mails, phone calls and by sending parcels.

“My last contact with her was on May 8, 2011. She told me she was in a small town in Malaysia after spending two days in the capital city,” she said.

Mortel was testifying in the trial of trader Asni Omar, 37, who is charged with murdering Foray, 30, at an unnumbered house in Kampung Tekek, Pulau Tioman, between 8pm on May 10 and noon on May 12 last year.

Hired killers gunned down in shootout

GERIK: Three killers high on the wanted list were shot dead in a gunbattle with the police when they tried to evade a roadblock here.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the trio fired at the police from the Pahang contingent who were trying to stop their car at about 1.49am on Tuesday in Jalan Intan, here.

“Police returned fire to defend themselves and the suspects were killed in the exchange,” he told a press conference at the district police headquarters here yesterday.

“None of our personnel were injured.”

Two pistols, bullets, mobile phones and pliers were found in their vehicle.

Sources identified the three as Mohd Baaqir Badrolhsam, 25, Zali­zan Amin Elias, 26, and Mohd Sahrufuzin Ali, 35.

The hunt for the suspects was carried out under Ops Cantas Khas by Bukit Aman police and the Perak and Pahang contingents.

The car the suspects were in bore Pahang registration plates but all three dead men were from Kelantan.

The three were involved in the murder of a steamed rice seller in Terengganu and had tried to kill a single mother in Pahang.

“They had also committed car thefts and robberies and had been especially active since six months ago,” Khalid said.

The trio, who were believed to be organising “criminal activities” in Perak, were known to be ruthless and would “do anything to get what they wanted, including murder”.

Investigations revealed that two of the suspects were involved in six criminal cases and the third in two.

Khalid said police were probing to find out whether the three had been hired as killers.

Asked if the three belonged to a gang, he replied: “If so, their deaths have crippled the group.”

The three bodies have been sent to the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh for a post-mortem.

Taman Toh Purba Lahamat resident Roshana Abdul Rahman, whose house is near where the shootout took place, said she was awakened by the sound of gun shots.

The 39-year-old, whose husband works in Penang, said she and her two teenage daughters peeped from their living room window to see what was happening.

A neighbour told them there had been an accident.

They followed him to the scene, about 100m away from their house and learned that a shooting incident had just occurred.

Roshana’s 15-year-old daughter Nurliyana Mohd Ariffin said they were afraid to walk too near the car, which was surrounded by many policemen.

“It was terrifying to know that such an incident actually took place in this quiet housing area,” she said.

Company owner gunned down while eating

Updated: Thursday October 10, 2013 MYT 7:27:01 AM

KUALA LUMPUR: It turned out to be a transport company operator’s “last supper” when he was shot dead at a restaurant in Taman Kajang Prima here.

R. Applasamy, 47, was having his meal at 1.30am on Tuesday when two men on a motorcycle arrived at the place.

The pillion rider, wearing a full-faced helmet, got off the motorcycle, walked up to Applasamy and fired point-blank at the victim.

A restaurant worker said he heard two shots fired. When he came out to check, he saw Applasamy falling off his chair. He died at the scene.

Applasamy’s body was sent to Serdang Hospital.

Selangor police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said police were investigating if a hired assassin was involved in the shooting.

“We are on the hunt for the two suspects,” he said yesterday.

Those with information on the case should call 03-2052 9999.