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Published: Saturday October 31, 2009 MYT 4:52:00 PM

Did a relative do it? Police probe murder of lawyer

By STEVEN DANIEL


KUALA LUMPUR: Police are now investigating to see if a bankruptcy case against a relative could be related to the murder of a 75-year-old lawyer who was strangled to death in his home.

City CID chief SAC II Datuk Ku Chin Wah said the lawyer M. Thiruchelvasegaram, was to have attended a court hearing on a bankruptcy case on the morning of his murder on Friday.

“We discovered that the bankruptcy case was against a relative and we are looking to see if that person had something to do with his death,” he said Saturday.

He said no suspects had been arrested yet but expected to record a statement from the relative soon.

Meanwhile, the family of the deceased, when met at the University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC), declined to comment.

On Friday, Thiruchelvasegaram, his wife and their maid were asleep when three men broke into their house in Jalan Batai, Bukit Damansara, at 4am.

One of the robbers tied up the wife and maid before locking them in a room while another dragged the lawyer to the hall upstairs.

It is believed that they strangled him when he refused to hand over the keys to a cabinet containing jewellery.

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