Malaysia Crime Watch

23 January 2010
Taiping

Police have arrested seven men aged between 17 and 29 years believed to be involved in the January 10 arson attacks on the All Saints Church, St Louis Church and Sekolah Menengah Convent. Perak CPO Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said the suspects were arrested at Kamunting and the nearby areas in four separate raids conducted on Thursday and Friday.

Zulkifli said the arson cases have been solved with these arrests, adding that they did not belong to any organized groups. Three suspects were self-employed, two were working for private companies and the rest were unemployed.

The seven have been remanded for six days and their case being investigated under Section 436 of the Penal Code for causing mischief, and Section 295 for defiling a place of worship to insult the religion of any class, which carry a sentence of up to 20 years’ jail and two years and a fine respectively.

The Star Online – Taiping arson cases solved
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/23/nation/5534000&sec=nation>

New Straits Times – 7 held over arson at school, 2 churches
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/articles/10arrest/Article/index_html>

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20 January 2010
Kuala Lumpur

Federal Criminal Investigations Department director Commissioner Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said police have arrested eight men on suspicion that they are related to the arson attack on the Metro Tabernacle Church. The suspects are aged between 21 and 26 years and included two brothers and their uncle.

A 25-year-old man went for burns treatment at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital on Tuesday at 3pm. Police questioned the man and arrested him there. This lead to the arrest of the other seven including one who also had burn injuries on his hand.

The suspects have been remanded for seven days to assist investigations and their case is classified under Section 436 of the Penal Code which carries a maximum of 20 years jail upon conviction.

The Star Online – Eight detained over church arson attack (Update)
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16 January 2010
Kuala Lumpur

36-year-old Jazimin Abdul Jalil, father of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, will be filing a negligence suit against the Malaysian police and Government over the post-mortem photographs of his daughter being exposed on the Internet.

On Monday, Judge Justice Zabariah Mohd Yusof of the High Court struck out the application by the Government to withdraw its application to strike out the suit. Senior Federal Counsel Noorin Badaruddin and SFC Zureen Elina Mohd Dom, who represented the defendants, had applied to withdraw their strike-out application and asked for RM10,000 in compensation.

Jazimin’s lawyer, Harjinder Singh Sandhu, objected to the compensation and said that he will present to court an application by his client on 29 January 2010 to include the name of a policeman who allegedly caused the online circulation of his daughter’s post-mortem photographs.

On 1 December 2009, Jazimin filed a summons to name Lance Corporal Amran Arifin as the fifth defendant in his suit. Earlier on 21 August 2008, he had named the Inspector-General of Police, the Selangor police chief, Petaling Jaya district police chief and the Government as defendants as well.

Jazimin claimed that in September 2007, the post-mortem photographs were passed to the defendants for investigation purposes. His 8-year-old old daughter had gone missing on 20 August 2007 in Wangsa Maju and suspected to be a victim of abduction and murder. It is learnt that an e-mail containing the photographs was circulated on the Internet.

In their statement of defence, the defendants stated that Lance Corporal Amran had brought home draft copies of those photographs and showed them to his neighbour. The neighbour’s relatives later took photos of them using a mobile phone camera without Amran’s knowledge. It is claimed that those people then posted the photos online.

The Star Online – Nurin case: Negligence suit against cops, Govt to be heard
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/18/nation/20100118131425&sec=nation>

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