Baby killers to know their fate on March 3

KUCHING: An Indonesian couple suspected of killing and burying their two-day-old baby alive in 2013 will know their fate on March 3. A panel of Federal Court judges led by Tun Tengku Maimum Tuan Mat, Datuk Seri Haji Mohd Zawawi Salleh and Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, set the appeal for that date as they still […]

Assaulted and threatened because of boyfriend

MIRI: Three individuals, including a woman, broke into a rented room of a budget hotel here at Jalan Lee Tak on Monday night (1 Feb) to assault a 30-year-old female guest. The woman then proceeded to accuse the guest of trying to snatch her boyfriend. During the incident which occurred around 8pm on Monday, the […]

Man arrested for threatening parents

KUCHING: Police have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly beating and threatening to kill his parents. Padawan police chief, Supt Aidil Bolhassan said the suspect was arrested at Jalan Mendu here at 3.45pm this evening. The arrest was made after a police report was lodged by the suspect’s father – who claimed that the suspect […]

Murder suspect remanded

KUCHING: The Magistrates’ Court here today ordered an unemployed man, suspected of killing his own grandmother, to be remanded for seven days to facilitate investigation into the case. The 27-year-old suspect was arrested on Sep 21 in a half-conscious state and later confirmed positive for methamphetamine. The suspect has two previous records of drug abuse. […]

Businessman killed at rubber estate

KUCHING: A businessman was killed by two armed men believed to be foreigners at a rubber estate in Ulu Layar, Betong. Sarawak Commissioner of Police Datuk Ramli Din said the 31-year-old rubber trader, accompanied by his 48-year-old employee cum assistant, headed to the estate in Kabok to purchase rubber at around 2pm on Tuesday. Upon […]