Sunday May 11, 2008
Driver of bogus taxi admits to stabbing and robbing woman
BY STEVEN DANIEL
KUALA LUMPUR: An unlikely chain of events led to the arrest of a suspect who was believed to have stabbed a woman four times and left her to bleed to death.
The victim, Lee Hui Fun, was found unconscious in Jalan Maktab, Kajang, on Friday morning by policemen on patrol duty.
Coincidentally, a man driving a taxi, was involved in an accident with a motorcycle at 4pm along Jalan Ipoh.
The motorcyclist, who confronted the driver of the taxi, saw a bloodstained handbag on the rear passenger seat. The suspect then panicked and made a run for the Perkim Building car park.
Bound: The suspect with his hands bound before he was taken to the police station, and (below) the ‘taxi’ driven by the suspect. — AZMAN GHANI/ The Star However, he was caught and beaten up by several passers-by. It was then that the suspect, in his 30s, shouted “saya bunuh satu orang sahaja (I only killed one person)”.
The suspect apparently believed he had killed Lee, not knowing that she was fighting for her life in hospital.
The suspect was handed over to the police and during interrogation, admitted to have committed the offence in Batu 9/11, Kajang, hours earlier. He was later taken to the Kajang police station for further investigations.
Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Shakaruddin Che Mood yesterday confirmed that the suspect had been arrested. He said police were still investigating if there was a second suspect involved.
A source said there was a possibility that Lee was driven to a location where another person was waiting, before she was robbed. It was also believed that Lee put up a struggle before she was stabbed and left for dead.
The 33-year-old clerk from Taman Kencana, Pandan Indah, had boarded a taxi on Friday morning to go to a monorail station on Jalan Sultan Ismail. However, the taxi took another route, prompting Lee to call her husband Chow Chee Ming, 34, at 8.40am.
Chow, when met at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital yesterday, said she called a few times as he could not hear her clearly the first few times.
“I managed to hear her clearly during her last call at 8.50am, saying the taxi driver was taking her somewhere else.
“She also gave me the number plate of the taxi she was in,” Chow said.
“Then, I heard her shouting in Chinese ‘he's got a knife, he's got a knife', before the line got cut off.”
Lee, who has two children, is reported to be in stable condition.
The taxi's number plate was shown to be false when checked against the Road Transport Department's online system.
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