Malaysia Crime Watch

18 January 2008
Petaling Jaya

Police have found another doll in Gunung Rapat, Ipoh, similar to the one left in the area of Taman Medan last week where 5-year-old Sharlinie Mohd Nashar was last seen.

Sharlinie has been missing from a playground in Taman Medan on 9 January 2008.

A photograph of the doll was taken and eventually caught the attention of the police a few days ago. Petaling police are working with their Perak counterparts to verify the authenticity of the photograph and to contact the person who took it.

Meanwhile on Thursday, a man and his accomplice, both in their 20s, showed up at Sharlinie’s house at 9:40pm, pretending to police officers from the Bukit Aman division.

They claimed to know about Sharlinie’s whereabouts and to have seen her recently. They also asked for a clearer photograph of the girl.

Sharlinie’s family members became suspicious of them and started searching for them after they left asking questions. The two were brought back to the house where one of them admitted that they were bogus policemen. The neighbours became furious and started assaulting them, but one of them managed to escape on a motorcycle.

The other man was handed over the police. He was sent to the University Malaya Medical Centre’s (UMMC) psychiatric unit for observation, initially showing that he was mentally unstable.

Police said they have sought for help from Interpol although they have reasons to believe that she is still in the country. House-to-house searching in abandoned houses and buildings in the Klang Valley is still ongoing.

The Star Online – Doll photo puzzles cops
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/18/nation/20080118165356&sec=nation>

The Star Online – Cops seek agency’s help to find missing girl
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/18/nation/20045395&sec=nation>

The Star Online – Taman Medan folk catch bogus cop
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/18/nation/20051729&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – Two men assaulted after posing as cops to family
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/2135378/Article/index_html>

MCW – Sharlinie Missing: 16-year-old Arrested for Extortion
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/sharlinie-missing-16-year-old-arrested/>

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18 January 2008
Penang

A youth was arrested a few hours after he allegedly sodomized his friend while giving him a massage.

Two youths, aged 18 and 20 years, went out to dinner before going to the older youth’s apartment in Sungai Nibong on Thursday at 10pm. Whilst there, the older youth gave his friend a naked body massage. He then sodomized him before letting him leave the apartment.

A police report was lodged and the victim sent to the Penang Hospital for a check-up.

Police have classified the case as carnal intercourse against the order of nature under Section 377C of the Penal Code which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.

The Star Online – Youth arrested for sodomising friend
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/18/nation/20080118172717&sec=nation>

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17 January 2008
Shah Alam

Celcom information technology analyst Syed Mustaqim Syed Yusoff said in High Court yesterday that as the time taken to capture a call transaction is less than a second, the data extracted from the mobile switch would be accurate.

On the 78th day of the murder trial of Altantuya Shaariibuu, the 29-year-old said that if the data was corrupted, it could not be read, extracted or retrieved. Thus, the data which he had extracted showing that accused Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri was at Puncak Alam where Altantuya was murdered and blown up with explosives was not corrupted.

When questioned by Azilah’s counsel J. Kuldeep Kumar earlier, he agreed that the data on Azilah’s call transactions printed by Celcom’s Investigation and Special Project Division executive Mohd Firdaous Mohd Omar was different from the one that he obtained from the switch.

Mohd Firdaous was requested by the investigating police to prepare Azilah’s phone record details for the trial.

Hearing continues on Monday.

The Star Online – Witness: Call data accurate
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/1/17/courts/20035469&sec=courts>

New Straits Times – IT analyst stands by raw phone transaction data
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Thursday/National/2134403/Article/index_html>

MCW – Altantuya Murder Trial: Prosecution Witness Admits Inaccurate Evidence
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/altantuya-murder-trial-prosecution/>

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