Tuesday May 23, 2006
Family had hunch close relative involved
By NG CHENG YEE
PETALING JAYA: Ho Ping's family members had a hunch from the beginning that a close relative could have been involved in his kidnapping.
The seven-year-old was kidnapped last Thursday and his body, which was stuffed in a travel bag, was fished out of Sungai Sitiawan in Sitiawan, Perak.
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Ho Chan Cheah (right), the father of seven-year-old kidnap-murder victim Ho Ping (INSET), and his sons praying for the dead boy at the mortuary of the University Malaya Medical Centre in Petaling Jaya yesterday. They were waiting for the body to be released by the hospital. Ho Ping was abducted on Thursday and his body was found on Sunday in Sitiawan, Perak. |
“One of my brothers picked Ho Ping up from school before going to a restaurant, which is about 500m from our house, for bak kut teh.
“It was at the restaurant that they saw the suspect, who later approached them and offered to send Ho Ping home,” he said.
He said the suspect later told his wife (who is seven months' pregnant and lives in the house in SS19 in Subang Jaya) that Ho Ping was already home and taking a shower.
Not suspecting anything amiss, his wife dozed off until 9pm when she woke up to find Ho Ping missing.
“She called the suspect again and told him that Ho Ping was missing before asking him to come home to find Ho Ping,” he said.
However, Jian Cao said, the suspect told her that he was on the way to Penang and could only come back after settling some matters.
He said the suspect, who reached home the next day, joined other family members to look for Ho Ping at several nearby hospitals before going to the police to give their statements.
The relative and a Chinese national have since been arrested.
The suspect was recently discovered to have been having an affair with another Chinese national, Jian Cao said.
Jiao Cao said the suspect had been married for three years and that the couple had two children, with another on the way.
“He could never stay at one job for too long, and he never thinks about his family's future. All he thinks about is how to make easy money,” he said.
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