{"id":3819,"date":"2010-10-05T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/10\/new-leads-may-help-solve-two-murder-cases\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:58:53","slug":"new-leads-may-help-solve-two-murder-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/new-leads-may-help-solve-two-murder-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"New leads may help solve two murder cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/feldamengkawang.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/feldamengkawang.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><strong>HULU TERENGGANU:<\/strong> Police have not closed the files on two  long-standing murder cases despite their trails turning cold, state  police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police had not given up on the cases but a little help in the form  of reliable information would go a long way in solving them.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The trails on both cases have turned cold,&#8221; Shukri said when met at a  Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration  at the Kuala Berang police station  yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> The first case was the murder of Felda Mengkawang Umno branch  chairman Asimah Abdul Rahman (picture right) who was found in a pool of blood after she  was stabbed to death  at her home in Felda Mengkawang in September last  year.<\/p>\n<p>A local man was arrested but was released after police found he had  no connection to the murder of the 51-year-old mother, who was stabbed  more than 11 times in the abdomen and twice in the right rib.<\/p>\n<p> Police said Asimah&#8217;s gold chain and bangles were also missing, adding  that the victim was last seen by another neighbour at about 2pm with a  group of friends before she returned home an hour later.<\/p>\n<p> Footprints were also found at the back of the victim&#8217;s house,  indicating that the assailant had fled into a secondary jungle behind  her house.<\/p>\n<p> The other case involved a nurse, Norhayati Awang,  who was found murdered inside her car at the Kuala Terengganu Hospital  on Aug 13, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Shukri said a man was arrested but  after the remand ended, police failed to connect him to the murder.<\/p>\n<p>Norhayati died from a  deep slash wound to the neck.<\/p>\n<p>Shukri  said the deputy public prosecutor&#8217;s office recommended an inquest after  studying the police investigation papers into Norhayati&#8217;s murder. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The inquest will be held. We need some time, that&#8217;s all.&#8221;-NSTOnline<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HULU TERENGGANU: Police have not closed the files on two long-standing murder cases despite their trails turning cold, state police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said yesterday. Police had not given up on the cases but a little help in the form of reliable information would go a long way in solving them. &#8220;The trails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}