IPOH, Feb 14 — The city has been rocked by a second murder in three days with the latest case being a 32-year old contractor who was strangled with an electrical wire.
Police found Rais Ramzidi Rhahim's body on a sofa with the wire around his neck in the bathroom of his father's house in Kampung Ahmad Said Tambahan 2.
The house was undergoing renovation.
The family was alerted by a friend, Baharom Saad, at 9.30pm on Thursday.
Baharom was asked to check on the victim after his family was unable to reach him.
Baharom went to the house and found it in darkness.
“I called the police and entered the house with them,” he said.
“Police searched the house and found Rais dead in the bathroom with the wire around his neck. It is just so cruel how he was killed.”
The victim's mother Salmah Othman, 55, said she last spoke to her son on Wednesday, but nothing seemed amiss.
“He only mentioned the renovation was going well and the house was a bit dusty,” she said at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, where the post-mortem was performed.
“He always picked up our calls and we thought it was strange he didn't this time. We were close and always kept in touch by phone.”
Salmah said the family lived in Putrajaya, and was renovating the house so they could return there following her husband's recent retirement from civil service.
“We also had plans to go for umrah as a family on March 2 but that hope is now gone,” she said fighting back tears.
Based on early findings, Ipoh deputy OCPD Supt Ahmad Tarmizi Abd Haq said Rais was killed some 36 hours earlier.
He said the victim, a class F contractor, went to his father's house to check on some wiring work by his workers.
Ahmad Tarmizi declined to confirm whether the workers were linked to the incident, saying that investigations were ongoing.
“Police will give special attention to the case because of the cruel manner in which he was killed,” he said.
“We have some leads and are in the process of identifying the suspects.”
On Wednesday, a policeman's wife was allegedly killed by four teenagers who slit her throat at her home in Taman Tanjung Emas, Tanjung Rambutan.
One of the boys is believed to have known the victim, as she had brought him along on her home-cleaning rounds and paid him so he could support his family.
The four teenagers were remanded for six days until Tuesday.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/contractor-found-strangled-electrical-wire-225700785.html?linkId=12354636
Police found Rais Ramzidi Rhahim's body on a sofa with the wire around his neck in the bathroom of his father's house in Kampung Ahmad Said Tambahan 2.
The house was undergoing renovation.
The family was alerted by a friend, Baharom Saad, at 9.30pm on Thursday.
Baharom was asked to check on the victim after his family was unable to reach him.
Baharom went to the house and found it in darkness.
“I called the police and entered the house with them,” he said.
“Police searched the house and found Rais dead in the bathroom with the wire around his neck. It is just so cruel how he was killed.”
The victim's mother Salmah Othman, 55, said she last spoke to her son on Wednesday, but nothing seemed amiss.
“He only mentioned the renovation was going well and the house was a bit dusty,” she said at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital, where the post-mortem was performed.
“He always picked up our calls and we thought it was strange he didn't this time. We were close and always kept in touch by phone.”
Salmah said the family lived in Putrajaya, and was renovating the house so they could return there following her husband's recent retirement from civil service.
“We also had plans to go for umrah as a family on March 2 but that hope is now gone,” she said fighting back tears.
Based on early findings, Ipoh deputy OCPD Supt Ahmad Tarmizi Abd Haq said Rais was killed some 36 hours earlier.
He said the victim, a class F contractor, went to his father's house to check on some wiring work by his workers.
Ahmad Tarmizi declined to confirm whether the workers were linked to the incident, saying that investigations were ongoing.
“Police will give special attention to the case because of the cruel manner in which he was killed,” he said.
“We have some leads and are in the process of identifying the suspects.”
On Wednesday, a policeman's wife was allegedly killed by four teenagers who slit her throat at her home in Taman Tanjung Emas, Tanjung Rambutan.
One of the boys is believed to have known the victim, as she had brought him along on her home-cleaning rounds and paid him so he could support his family.
The four teenagers were remanded for six days until Tuesday.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/contractor-found-strangled-electrical-wire-225700785.html?linkId=12354636
