Monday February 2, 2009
Kidnap victim found killed
By SARBAN SINGH
PORT DICKSON: A 20-year-old student, kidnapped from his home in Bukit Rimau on Jan 25, was found brutally murdered at an oil palm plantation in Sua Betong along the Port Dickson-Pasir Panjang road near here yesterday.
Plantation workers stumbled on the gruesome find at around 7am as they were about to start work.
State police chief SAC I Datuk Osman Salleh said the victim’s remains were identified by his father at the hospital mortuary in the afternoon.
“The victim’s neck was almost severed and he also had slash wounds on his face and shoulder.
“We had difficulties identifying him earlier as he did not have any documents on him,” he said.
The victim was a student at a private college near his home.
SAC Osman said Selangor police had earlier identified a suspect involved in the kidnapping.
“I was told that the suspect was related to the victim,” he said, adding that police had yet to establish if the suspect was also involved in the victim’s death.
The victim, who was the only son in the family, had two younger sisters.
It is learnt that the suspect had called the victim’s father a day after his disappearance and demanded a RM100,000 ransom.
However, the father pleaded with the suspect to reduce the sum because he could not raise the amount being a taxi driver.
After negotiations, the suspect agreed to reduce the ransom to RM15,000.
All calls were made from a fixed line telephone.
On Friday, the victim’s father was told to board a train from Kuala Lumpur and alight at the Seremban station.
However, as the train pulled into the Seremban station, the suspect telephoned the father and told him not to get off.
He was told to remain in the trainfor further instructions.
When the train was passing through Rahang New Village near Senawang, the suspect telephoned the father and told him to throw the bag of money out of the window.
The father did as he was told.
The victim, however, was never released. The father also stopped receiving calls from the suspect after the ransom was paid.
Police are working on the theory that the victim was murdered as he knew the identity of his kidnapper.
Police have classified the case as kidnap-cum-murder.
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