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National Hockey Stadium
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Whether in defence or midfield, Man United new boy Phil Jones just wants to play
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Stubborn! Jln Sepadu’s illegal parking persists despite 676 compounds issued so far this year
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Body parts puzzle AMPANG JAYA
balcony
APARTMENT 36 HORROR
master bedroom
Living Room
toilet 2 room no 2 room no 3
BATHROOM
kitchen front door
dry area
•The body of a child stuffed in a plastic bag and crammed into a gaping hole in the ceiling. •Several body parts in plastic bags hanging from jagged plaster ceiling
•Several internal organs, intestines and stomach in toilet bowl. •Several other mutilated body parts of a woman strewn in the bathroom including: • A left leg on the floor. •Missing — head, right leg and torso.
Police baffled over murder of suspected mother and child whose remains were found at a vacant apartment
By Frankie D’Cruz and Aizat Sharif MYSTERY deepened into the grisly crime@mmail.com.my find of 15 highly decomposed body parts of a mutilated woman and the intact remains of a boy stuffed in a Police are trying to establish what was used plastic bag in the bathroom of an un- to dismember the woman’s body based on the occupied apartment in Taman Kosas hacking and have not ruled out more than one even as it emerged the victims may be sharp object having been utilised. mother and child. She was also thought to have been disembow-
The police are perplexed over the circumstances surrounding the horrific double murder and the eventual dumping of the body parts and the dead child in apartment 36 on the fifth floor of Block Chryssa, Astaria Apartments. While initial thoughts pointed to mother and child, DNA tests are to be conducted to determine the bond between them, said Ampang Jaya district police chief ACP Amiruddin Jamaluddin. First reports indicated the boy, aged six or seven, could have been strangled to death because there was no slash mark on his body. The child’s intact body was stuffed into a plastic bag and forced into a gaping hole in the plaster ceiling of the bathroom at the apartment. The woman was decapitated as her head was not among the body parts found in four other plastic bags that were hanging from sharp plaster ceiling splinters. Also missing were her torso and right leg.
elled as intestines and stomach were stuffed into the toilet bowl. Amiruddin said an autopsy of the chopped up body confirmed it was that of an adult woman and fingerprint analysis was underway to ascertain her identity. He said police teams were also scanning missing persons’ reports and talking to the residents of the apartment complex and the surrounding areas to get leads on the killings. Police, he said, had also begun examining the surveillance video from the security checkpoint dating back to about a week when the body parts were said to have been dumped in the apartment. Guards are also being interviewed. Amiruddin said police were also trying to trace the apartment owner and had appealed to him to come forward to assist investigations. Police made the gruesome discovery on Wednesday evening after they were alerted by residents to overpowering stench emanating from the unit. Till Press time, police were no nearer to finding out the identity of the slaughtered woman. No further body parts were also found as the search for them in nearby areas resumed this morning. ● More reports on pg2 and pg3