Malaysia Crime Watch

12 September 2007
Kuala Lumpur

A 45-year-old taxi driver was sentenced yesterday to 12 years’ jail and five strokes of the cane for committing incest.

The court found the man guilty to the crime committed in their Desa Pandan house on 14 April 2006 at 4:30pm. The man’s 14-year-old stepdaughter had returned home from school and gone into her room. He entered the room and brought her to another bedroom to undress her. The mother was out working at a factory. Although the victim struggled, she was raped.

The stepdaughter then related the incident to her mother and was taken to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a medical checkup.

The family, including two brothers aged 5 and 12, was in court yesterday to plead for a lighter sentence as they wanted him to support the family.

The judged ordered the jail sentence to start from the date of the taxi driver’s arrest, which was 16 April 2006.

The Star Online – Cross-country: Man jailed 12 years for incest
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/National/20070912081847/Article/index_html>

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12 September 2007
Petaling Jaya

Two men were arrested as they were suspected to be members of a robbery gang responsible for robbing people of large sums of money that they have withdrawn from a bank in Damansara Uptown. Four policemen were part of a task force that was monitoring the gang when they spotted the suspects in a car about 50 metres away from a bank yesterday at 3:30pm.

When the officers approached the men and started questioning them, the driver of the car started to drive off. The driver tried to knock down the policemen but crashed into a divider. The officers opened fire and one suspect was shot in the leg as he tried to escape on foot.

Two other gang members at the vicinity of the scene also ran off.

Police recovered four parangs and a black bag in the car. They believe that the gang is responsible for at least 15 robbery cases over the past month. The robbers would wait for bank customers to get into their cars before smashing their car windows with the parangs and robbing them. The robbers have allegedly made off with more than RM500,000 so far.

The Star Online – ‘Bankers gang’ members held
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/12/nation/18856946&sec=nation>

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12 September 2007
Ipoh

A 15-year-old student was remanded by police for allegedly stabbing a Form Four schoolmate with a knife on Tuesday.

Last Friday, the victim allegedly exposed a group of students who were watching pornography in the school library. The suspect then asked the victim to a laboratory “to resolve some outstanding issues between them”, according to school librarian and 16-year-old A. Kalaimugilan.

Police said that the suspect is being held until Monday and the case was being investigated under Section 324 of the Penal Code for causing injury with a dangerous weapon.

The Star Online – 15-year-old boy remanded for stabbing schoolmate
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/12/nation/20070912142557&sec=nation>

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