Body-in-fridge murder suspect released

The sole suspect in the body-in-the-fridge case found in Mont Kiara was released today. The 34-year-old Sarawakian woman was released under police bail.

City CID chief SAC II Ku Chin Wah said police received instructions from the DPP to release her as her remand expires today. "Investigations will continue and more people will be questioned to assist in investigations," he said.

The woman’s remand order had already been extended twice. She had been in custody since July 29.


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Psychiatric evaluation sought for woman in chopped up body parts case

KUALA LUMPUR: The lawyer of the 33-year-old woman detained in connection with the body parts in fridge case wants her to be sent for psychiatric evaluation.

Mah Weng Kwai, the woman's lawyer, said he made the request to the police through the court for the second time Monday when magistrate Nazran Mohd Sham extended her remand to last until tomorrow.

The lawyer first made the request last Tuesday when the woman was first remanded but so far, it had not been entertained.

Mah, who appeared together with his son Raymond Mah for the woman, said that he had read in an English tabloid that his client was said to be “not stable”.

“I don’t know if that is correct because it’s just a newspaper report. That’s why it’s crucial for us to determine her state of mind at the time of the alleged offence and now.”

Mah added that under Section 342 of the Criminal Procedure Code, counsel could apply to the court to refer an accused person for psychiatric evaluation.

“If the police don’t want to do the evaluation, then charge her so I can make a formal application in court,” he said.

Mah, who said his client appeared “worn out, tired and terribly frightened” during the proceedings, also appealed to the press not to subject her to a trial by the media.

“I don’t know who the sources are but I think it’s not right to publish diagrams showing how the body was cut up. “We should reserve the evidence until the case is heard in court,” he said in reference to the coverage by some Chinese newspapers.

Mah said the police were keeping the case very “tight” as he had still not been given access to his client despite her weeklong remand.

“We managed to hand her some clothes that she requested for last Thursday when she was brought to her mother’s house in Putra Heights,” the lawyer said, adding that the police had also seized her car, believed to be a Proton Wira.

“She’s very, very nervous.”

On July 29, a man who bought a condominium unit through an auction made a gruesome discovery when he went to the 19th floor unit to clean it up after receiving the keys just two days earlier.

He smelt a strong stench when he opened the door and immediately called the security guards of the condominium, located in the posh Mont Kiara area.

The guards searched the unit and found the body parts of an unidentified man chopped into 11 pieces inside a refrigerator.

The deceased was later identified as a 39-year-old Singaporean businessman named Goh Yoke Seng.

His family has since claimed and cremated his remains.

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Insight into woman murder suspect

KUALA LUMPUR: A 33-year-old woman, who is the prime suspect in the “body parts” murder has been described as a gentle and soft-spoken. She also had not given any impression that she was married.

This was how a source and her mother described the suspect implicated in the murder of Singaporean Goh Yoke Seng, 39, reported Singapore’s Sunday Ti-mes.

City police had detained the woman after the 11 pieces of the body parts of Goh, a businessman, were found stuffed inside a refrigerator in a Mont Kiara condominium last Sunday.

The source, a woman in her late 30s, told the newspaper that “I didn’t know she was married. I always thought she was single because we never met the husband.”

In March last year, the source and her husband had bought a two-storey terrace house in Subang Jaya that belonged to the suspect, her mother and younger brother.

The couple had been renting the house since 2005, and liked it so much that they decided to buy it for about RM200,000.

Sunday Times reported the source as saying the suspect was “very nice, very gentle and a soft-spoken person.”

“When she was detained, I was shocked to hear about it. I can’t imagine anyone like her being involved in something like this.”

The source said she had spoken to the suspect many times over the telephone, “but met her only once when my husband and I were buying the house.”

The newspaper reported that the source knew the suspect’s mother only as ‘Madam Cheah’ and said she was a divorcee, either in her 50s or 60s.

Cheah’s former neighbour in Subang Jaya, a man in his 50s, said the family kept to themselves but the suspect would visit her mother from time-to-time.

He said that Cheah, who lived next door to him from the 1990s to 2005, worked for an airline company.

The suspect, whose identity has been withheld as she has not been charged with any crime, is be-lieved to be an air stewardess.

She has been in police custody since last Sunday, when she turned herself in to the police.

The condominium's new owner and his sister found Goh's highly decomposed body parts, which were packed in five garbage bags and sealed with masking tape in the fridge when they went there to tidy up the unit, which he had bought at a bank auction.

Meanwhile, Goh’s ashes were taken back to Singapore yesterday.

Goh’s family did not turn up at the Cheras crematorium to collect the ashes. Instead, they instructed the undertaker to hand the ashes to a relative about 8.30am.

The ashes, packed in a jar, were said to have been couriered to Sing-apore.

Goh’s mother and brother, who claimed the businessman's remains on Saturday, are believed to have flown back to Singapore yesterday morning.

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Cops still probing body-in-fridge case

KUALA LUMPUR: Police do not rule out the possibility that more than one person were involved in the murder of a 39-year-old Singaporean man.

City CID chief Senior Asst Comm (II) Ku Chin Wah said that although the prime suspect had been detained, police were still gathering evidence and would pick up more people to assist in their probe.

“To us, the case is pretty much solved with the arrest of a 33-year-old Sarawakian woman, who is the victim’s wife. She has confessed the crime to us. But if we find new leads to show there were more people involved, then we will track them down,” SAC Ku said, but declined to comment on the motive for the killing.

He revealed that DNA tests confirmed that the deceased was one Goh Yoke Seng.

Police obtained blood samples from Goh’s mother and brother in Johor Baru on Wednesday. The results were received at 4pm yesterday.

Asked when Goh was believed to have been murdered, SAC Ku said: “Goh was not murdered recently. This is not a recent incident.”

He also refused to confirm if Goh was chopped into 11 pieces as reported earlier.

However, he confirmed that the murder weapon was found.

SAC Ku also did not reveal if the victim’s wife had lived at the posh condominium in Mont Kiara after Goh was murdered in the same place.

He said Goh and his wife were married here in 2002 and lived here since. The couple have no children.

Last Sunday, a man who bought the condominium in an auction made the gruesome discovery of Goh's body. The owner, in his 30s, had gone to clean the unit on the 19th floor and alerted security guards when he opened the condominium door and smelt a strong stench.

Security guards who searched the unit found body parts in a refrigerator, which had been sealed with masking tape.

The place had been vacant for more than three months and the man, who only received the keys last Friday, decided to clean up the property with his sister at about 3pm.

At the scene, police found a photocopy of a driving licence belonging to a woman named Nora Jawi Spreen Jawi, whose last known address was USJ2/4D, Subang Jaya.

Source: The Star Online

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