Five arrested in connection with Nurin's murder

SHAH ALAM: Five people including a woman have been arrested in connection with the murder of eight-year-old Nurul Jazlin Jazimin here on Thursday.

A team of police officers from the Petaling Jaya and Selangor police at about 11.30pm picked up the five aged between 27 and 33 from several locations in Section 7 here.

It is learnt one of the five, a man in his 30s, has a string of criminal records including sexual assault cases here and in several other states.

CID director Commissioner Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee said the arrests were made possible following information from the public.

"Two cars and five cellular phones were seized from the suspects,'' he said, adding that they were detained to assist police in their investigation into the murder of Nurin Jazlin.

The arrest of the five is the first major breakthrough police have made since Nurin Jazlin was first reported missing from her Wangsa Maju flat on Aug 20.

Police have been working tirelessly to nab the killer/s and have reopened several old cases with similar modus operandi to narrow down their suspects.

Nurin Jazlin went missing on Aug 20 after she went to a night market by herself near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju, in Setapak.

Her body was found stuffed in a sports bag at a three-storey shop lot in Petaling Utama on Sept 17.

A post-mortem showed that she had been sexually assaulted.

Source: The Star Online

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BREAKING NEWS: Four remanded in connection with Nurin's murder

Police obtained a seven-day remand order for the four male suspects to facilitate investigations. The four suspects, aged between 27 and 33, were picked up by members of a task force at various locations in Shah Alam to facilitate investigations into Nurin’s brutal death.

The fifth suspect, a pregnant woman, has been released after police recorded her statement.

The four men were earlier taken to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital where they underwent physical check-up before being taken to the Petaling Jaya Magistrate Court.

The Criminal Scene Investigation (CSI) team also went to a single-storey terrace house in Taman Kampung Kuantan in Klang, before proceeding to a double-storey shophouse in Section 7 in Shah Alam.

The Klang address belongs to the couple detained while the shophouse is where they run their textile business.

Source: The New Straits Times

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FBI to assist in probe

THE United States’s Federal Bureau of Investigation have been called in to help police with the probe into the murder of eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said an FBI agent is already in Kuala Lumpur while another will arrive soon.

It is learnt that the blurry images of a suspect caught on CCTV where the body was dumped will be sent to the FBI lab at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, to be enhanced.

“They are helping us with the investigation, especially on the technical side of the probe,” he said.POLICE have enlisted the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Nurin Jazlin Jazimin murder case.

It is learnt that the blurred images of a suspect caught on CCTV cameras where the body was dumped will be sent to the FBI lab at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC, to be enhanced.

An FBI agent is in Kuala Lumpur while another will arrive soon, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan yesterday.

“They are helping us with the investigation, especially on the technical side,” he said, adding that the images have been handed over to the agent, who is based at the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

“The CCTV footage we have is blurry. We hope the FBI will be able to sharpen the images.” Once the image is enhanced, police will come up with a photofi t.

Musa said a local police offi cer will accompany the agents to the FBI laboratory.

“We recently contacted an FBI representative stationed here and they agreed to help,” he said.

He reiterated that police are working on several leads but declined to elaborate further.

Musa told reporters this after presenting Hari Raya goodies to police personnel at Federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman yesterday.

It was reported that police have retrieved images of two possible suspects from a CCTV camera close to where Nurin was found.

One of them is a motorcyclist with a sports bag while the other is a petite woman in a red top, who left the area with three men in a Perodua Kenari.

Nurin was reported missing after visiting a pasar malam near her house in Section 1, Wangsa Maju on Aug 20.

Her body was found stuffed in a sports bag that had been dumped in front of a book distribution company in PJS 1/48, Petaling Jaya Utama on Sept 17.

Post-mortem on her remains showed that she had been sexually assaulted with a brinjal and a cucumber.

She died from infection as the objects had ruptured her abdomen.

Nurin was buried at the Taman Ibukota Muslim cemetery last Friday.

A source said the Bernama journalist who reported that a suspect had been detained in connection with the case will give his statement at Sentul police station today.

It was reported yesterday that police had denied the report, calling it ‘irresponsible’.

Source: The Malay Mail

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