Police confirm body found eight months ago belonged to missing teacher
Dismembered body identified as missing teacher
ALOR GAJAH - Police have confirmed that the dismembered body discovered in a drain along Alor Gajah-Tampin trunk road near Kampung Rimau, Pulau Sebang, Alor Gajah, on Dec 31 last year, belonged to 33-year-old Istiqomah Ahmad Rozi, a teacher who had been reported missing four days earlier.
Alor Gajah district police chief Superintendent Ashari Abu Samah said that a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test revealed that the remains matched the victim, who had been reported missing since Dec 27.
He said that intelligence gathered by the Special Investigation Unit (D9) of the Melaka Criminal Investigation Department, in collaboration with the Johor Criminal Investigation Department and the Alor Gajah District Police Headquarters Criminal Investigation Division, led to the arrest of a married couple, aged 36 and 37.
"This couple was apprehended in Chemor, Perak, and the investigation conducted on the two individuals led to the discovery of additional body parts, including finger bones and a part of the skull, not far from the location where the initial remains were found, about five to six kilometres from the first site," he said in a statement today.
He added that the victim, who had three children, was believed to have known the male suspect and was involved in an investment deal, while his wife did not know the victim.
"The two individuals arrested have been remanded for seven days starting from Aug 6, and the police will seek to extend the remand today for the detained male suspect," he added.
He said the case was investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder which provides for the death penalty or imprisonment.
He urged the public with any information related to the case to channel it to the CID of IPD Alor Gajah at 06-556 2222 or contact the investigating officer ASP Norehan Omar at 010-406 4003.
The media previously reported that a decapitated body of a woman, believed murdered and stuffed into a garbage bin, was found in a drain on the Alor Gajah-Tampin trunk road near Kampung Rimau, Pulau Sebang at about 2pm.
