Murder of teen girl: Death sentence on guard upheld
Published on: Saturday, August 29, 2015
Putra Jaya: The Federal Court here on Friday upheld the death sentence on a security guard who murdered a teenage daughter of his friend and torched the body in an oil palm plantation, about four years ago. A five-member panel chaired by Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif unanimously dismissed D. Kalaiselvan's final appeal against his conviction and death sentence.The others sitting on the panel were Federal Court judges Tan Sri Abdull Hamid Embong, Tan Sri Hasan Lah, Tan Sri Abu Samah Nordin and Datuk Ramly Ali.Kalaiselvan, 50, was found guilty and sentenced to death by the High Court in Johor Baharu for the murder of Nur Rahayu Qomarudin, 16, at the Sungai Masai oil palm plantation in Masai between 2.30am and 2.50am on June 18, 2011.ADVERTISEMENT He was accused of committing the offence with another person still at large.Kalaiselvan was unsuccessful in his appeal at the Court of Appeal which was dismissed on March 18, last year.According to the facts of the case, Nur Rahayu's boyfriend had left her near a security guard's house on June 17, after a night out to watch a futsal game, and asked the deceased to call her father to fetch her.However, Nur Rahayu's father did not answer her phone call.ADVERTISEMENT About 2.20am, her boyfriend received a telephone call from the deceased's handphone through which he heard her crying and wailing, and being beaten up. At the same time, he heard a man talking: "Why are you so stubborn? You don't want to listen to me".The boyfriend also heard dogs barking and the man directing Nur Rahayu to sit on a motorcycle before the call was disconnected. Subsequently, the teenager could not be contacted at all.
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The police later detained Kalaiselvan who showed a team of policemen where he had torched the teenager's body and the place where her bones were placed.Nur Rahayu's parents identified the charred remains as those of their daughter, based on the hair clip and a pair of slippers she had worn.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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Evidence indicated that Kalaiselvan told his wife that he and another man brought the deceased to an oil palm plantation near a cemetery, stabbed her on the neck with a knife and set the body ablaze.It also showed that the deceased's father, contractor Qomarudin Bajuri knew Kalaiselvan as he used to pack food and drinks for him.