Autopsy reveals woman tortured to death: Police
Published on: Thursday, May 05, 2016
KEMAMAN: An autopsy has revealed what is suspected to be a life of torture experienced by a 22-year-old woman whose father claimed had died of fever. The woman weighed just 18kg at the time of her death on April 26, had been deprived of food for over three weeks, had bite marks all over her body, had bruises on her eyes, and marks of an object having been inserted into her private parts. Kemaman Police chief Supt Mohd Said Ibrahim said police classified the death as murder and arrested the woman's 49-year-old father, her 35-year-old stepmother and her younger siblings aged 21 and 14 last Sunday.
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They are being held under remand for seven days from last Monday. The police also performed a dental examination on the family members to determine whether there was any match to the bite marks on the woman's body, he said. Mohd Said said police believed that the woman was abused by the family members and deprived of food for over three weeks. "We believe the victim was not given any food and had starved to death. There were also marks on her private parts to suggest some object had been inserted there," he told reporters.
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Mohd Said said the woman's father had lodged a police report on April 26 that his daughter died of fever at their home in Binjai, Terengganu. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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The woman was buried at the Kuala Kemaman Muslim cemetery on April 30. – Bernama
