Saturday August 27, 2005
Vicious six remanded
BY ANDREW SAGAYAM
KUALA LUMPUR: They were vicious and had attacked other victims in the way they repeatedly raped and assaulted an Ipoh schoolteacher on Wednesday.
The police believe the suspects had also been previously convicted for armed robbery and drug-related cases. Police are trying to establish the extent of their crimes.
“Five of them were involved in violent crimes in the city about two years ago. We are now checking if they were recently involved in other serious crimes, including rape-cum-robbery, in the Klang Valley and other states,” said city CID chief Senior Asst Comm II Aziz Bulat.
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ARRESTED: The suspects being led to the police station in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. |
Not satisfied, they took her back to her house and took her jewellery, laptop computer and her car.
She was then taken on a three-hour terror ride to Kundang, near Rawang, where two others were waiting.
She was repeatedly raped, assaulted and held by the men until 9pm and then abandoned by the roadside.
A passer-by took her to the Kundang police station where she lodged a report at 10.15pm.
Six men, aged 20 to 50 and two women, aged 25 and 26, were arrested within 24 hours, thanks to an immobiliser installed in the teacher’s car.
They were remanded for 11 days as of yesterday to help in investigations.
One of the suspects is believed to be one of the rapists. Another suspect, said to be in his 30s, is still at large.
It is learnt that the father and a younger brother of the escaped suspect were among those nabbed.
Sources said the father was previously convicted for drug-related offences.
SAC Aziz said the Gombak district police was handling the alleged rape case, while the Ipoh police would investigate the abduction and robbery.
In Ipoh, CHAN LI LEEN reports that the teacher's anguished family is struggling hard to help her cope with her trauma.
“We are angry over what had happened to her but we have to concentrate on helping her first,” said an elder brother of the victim.
His sister, he said, was not sleeping and eating well.
“We have brought her back to Ipoh to recuperate,” he said but declined to reveal where she was.
The brother appealed to the media to provide accurate reports of the incident, adding that the family was disappointed with a Chinese daily that claimed his sister was drugged.
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