Malaysia Crime Watch

23 June 2007
Nibong Tebal

37-year-old businesswoman Lee Kooi Im was believed to have strangled to death her 11-year-old son, Loo Yoke Jie, at home and killed herself by running into the path of a bus along the North-South Expressway.

Kooi Im had parked her car under a flyover at KM205.6 of the expressway about an hour after Yoke Jie died. She had left a note saying “I won’t disturb you any more. May you live in peace”. The bus driver had tried to swerve to avoid her but failed. She died instantly yesterday at 12:30pm.

The note also contained a telephone number which belonged to her husband, Loo Chye Cheang, aged 42.

Loo owns a workshop in Nibong Tebal and rushed to Taiping Hospital when Kooi Im’s sister called him about the accident.

However, the post-mortem from Parit Buntar Hospital on their eldest son said that he could have died from suffocation in their Taman Selesa home at 8:30am. Police recovered a pillow from the scene.

The couple has another 18-month-old son, who was taken care by a babysitter at that time.

Police initially classified the case as murder.

New Straits Times – Boy strangled, mum dashes in front of bus
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/20070623094906/Article/index_html>

The Star Online – Lee run over by bus, son strangled in their home
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/23/nation/18115618&sec=nation>

The Star Online – Boy, 11, died of suffocation
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/24/nation/18119484&sec=nation>

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22 June 2007
Kepala Batas

An 18-year-old girl was taken away by fake policemen while she was riding with her boyfriend on his motorcycle on Sunday. The group of men had stopped them and ordered the boyfriend to leave. The men then took her on their motorcycles to a nearby village deserted house and took turns to rape her.

The girl was gagged throughout the three days that she was locked up in the house and was raped by other men who entered the house later.

She made a police report at the Kepala Batas police station and police have detained two men yesterday. It is believed that the main suspect is still at large.

New Straits Times – Girl abducted and gang-raped
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Friday/National/20070622083128/Article/index_html>

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22 June 2007
Shah Alam

The fourth day of the Altantuya murder trial continues with P. Balasubramaniam saying that accused Abdul Razak Baginda had never asked him to murder the Mongolian woman known as Altantuya Shaariibuu. He also said there was no need for Abdul Razak to lodge a police report against the deceased victim for being outside his office on 9 October 2006.

The private investigator testified that his assistant, K. Suras Kumar, was dismissed for being “too close” to one of the three Mongolian women whom he was task to monitor. Abdul Razak had complained to him that the Suras was getting too close.

Abdul Razak’s counsel Wong Kian Kheong asked Balasubramaniam the kind of relationship his assistant was having with one of the women and that he had rented a room at Hotel Malaya to spend the night with one of them.

The prosecution’s second witness, Altantuya’s father, 57-year-old Shaariibuu Setev told the court that his daughter had come to Malaysia twice last year to see a man named “Baginda”. Altantuya had visited Malaysia two years ago as well.

The director of the National University of Mongolia’s information and education centre then testified that her daughter had said that she had someone in Malaysia. She did not elaborate further on their relationship.

Shaariibuu then explained that he and his wife Altantsetseg, aged 52, live in an apartment in the Mongolian capital of Ulanbator. Altantuya was not married but had two children and they have a younger daughter named Altanzul who just gave birth and lives with them.

Shaariibuu’s testimony was interpreted from Mongolian into English by Mongolian interpreter Enkhjargal Tsetsgee. Enkhjargal was also the spokesperson for the man.

The Star Online – ‘Razak did not ask me to kill her’
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/22/nation/18102205&sec=nation>

The Star Online – PI: My assistant got too close
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/22/nation/18101256&sec=nation>

The Star Online – Dad: Altantuya came to see a ‘Baginda’
<URL:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/6/22/nation/18101918&sec=nation>

MCW – Balasubramaniam Testifies Further in Altantuya Murder Trial
<URL:http://malaysiacrimewatch.lokety.com/balasubramaniam-testifies-further-in/>

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