Malaysia Crime Watch

11 June 2007
Alor Star

Two-month-old Khirunisak Abdul Manaf was found lying unconscious in bed with her mother’s breast milk in her mouth yesterday. Her mother, Nor Asmah Mohamad, aged 28, had tried to wake her up at 5am at their Tongkang Yard home.

Khirunisak was breast-fed by her mother on Saturday night at 10pm before she was put to bed on a mattress in the parents’ room. When Nor Asmah and her husband, Abdul Manaf Salim, aged 30, woke up the next morning to see their baby motionless, they rushed her to the Alor Star hospital.

The baby was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. It is suspected that Khirunisak may have died from aspiration pneumonia, where her lungs were filled with her mother’s breast milk, causing her to drown.

A post-mortem has been ordered and her body was released to her family yesterday. Police have classified the case as sudden death.

New Straits Times – Baby chokes to death on mum’s milk
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/20070611083419/Article/index_html>

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10 June 2007
Kuala Lumpur

20-year-old Nazrul Hakimy Latip has claimed trial to raping a 16-year-old girl at his Taman Greenwood house in Batu Caves on 7 February 2007. The mechanic was believed to have committed the crime between 2pm and 5pm that day.

The Sessions Court judge granted him RM5,000 bail with one surety. His case will be mentioned on 12 July 2007.

New Straits Times – Mechanic claims trial to rape
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/20070609083735/Article/index_html>

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10 June 2007
Kuala Lumpur

The Kuala Lumpur Bar Criminal Practice Committee chairman N. Sivananthan said that it is dissatisfied with the reason given by the Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail for changing the prosecution team for the Altantuya murder trial. He said the fact that the deputy public prosecutor Salehuddin Saidin and the trial judge Mohd Zaki Md Yasin regularly play badminton together was nothing secret and that they played as part of a group.

Newspapers had reported that while the two were at the club in January this year, a member of their group, judge Datuk Abdul Wahab Said Ahmad had collapsed after a game and died later. Sivananthan said Abdul Gani would have know about the two being together then.

The trial was postponed earlier this Monday as the replacement lawyer, Tun Majid Tun Hamzah, needed time to catch up on the case information.

New Straits Times – Reason for postponing Altantuya case inadequate, says KL Bar
<URL:http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Saturday/National/20070609082320/Article/index_html>

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