Re: Kovan double murder: Fighting could be heard from home
Kovan murders: Suspect 'in regular contact with older victim'
He would update workshop owner on safe deposit box theft, says relative
Published on Jul 15, 2013
Mr Tan Chee Heong’s wife with their younger son beside the hearse, as his coffin was about to be taken out at the funeral parlour yesterday. -- PHOTOS: SEAH KWANG PENG, LIANHE WANBAO
Suspect Iskandar Rahmat, a 14-year veteran of the police force, is expected to be charged today. The 34-year-old has been suspended from the force. -- PHOTOS: SEAH KWANG PENG, LIANHE WANBAO
By Walter Sim And Jalelah Abu Baker
KOVAN double murder suspect Iskandar Rahmat was believed to have been in touch with one of his two victims - the late Mr Tan Boon Sin - on a regular basis since late last year.
A close relative of Mr Tan told The Straits Times yesterday that Iskandar would call the 67-year-old car workshop owner to update him about a case of theft from his safe deposit box at the Certis Cisco building which he had reported to the police last November.
"He would call Boon Sin every few weeks to update him on the theft and reassure him that the investigation was going well, and that the matter would be resolved," said the relative, who wanted to be known as Mrs Tan.
But Iskandar, a police senior staff sergeant, was not the investigation officer (IO) of the case, even though he had handled the initial report made by Mr Tan.
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