SEREMBAN: A juvenile woman and her 41-year-old father, a self-employed man, have been collectively charged on the Magistrate’s Court right here with the murder of a five-year-old woman whose skeletal stays had been present in a jungle close to a residential space on April 7.
The woman, who turns 18 in October, and her father had been collectively charged with murdering Hanan Hasrul Izwan at a home in Taman Nee Yan close to right here at about 7pm on March 3.
No plea was recorded.
The father was additionally charged in one other Magistrate’s Court with the murder of 29-year-old Merriamah Abdullah Basam whose stays had been present in a ravine alongside Jalan Bukit Putus on March 20.
Again, no plea was recorded as formal murder prices can solely be laid within the High Court.
In the primary Magistrate’s Court, the person had pleaded responsible to a separate cost of voluntarily inflicting grievous harm to at least one Siti Sharifah Aibiddin, 35, on the identical home.
However, at a Sessions Court later, he did a turnaround and claimed trial to a cost of inflicting grievous harm to Siti Sharifah by splashing sizzling water on her, inflicting her to undergo critical burns.
He additionally pleaded not responsible to a cost of neglect towards Siti Sharifah’s son, 20-month-old Sufiy Hasrul Izwan.
Murder sufferer Hanan Hasrul was additionally Siti Sharifah’s daughter.
Both father and daughter now face the necessary dying penalty upon conviction.
The two magistrates, Mohd Firdaus Saleh and Norzaliza Tesnim, fastened May 17 for subsequent point out after the prosecution groups stated they’d but to obtain the related stories.
The cost of neglect, beneath Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act which carries a superb of as much as RM50,000 or a jail time period of as much as 20 years or each, is about for point out on May 17.
For the cost the place he pleaded responsible, the person faces a jail time period of as much as seven years and a superb or each.
Datuk Hanif Hassan, who saved a watching transient for Siti Sharifah’s household, requested Justice of the Peace Mohd Firdaus to permit an affect evaluation report from the sufferer to be introduced in court docket.
The court docket allowed the appliance and fastened April 27 to condemn the accused.
The man and his daughter had been represented by Noor Azizi Abdull Aziz from the Legal Aid Bureau.
Merriamah’s physique was discovered within the ravine alongside Jalan Bukit Putus by a jogger on March 20.
On April 7, the skeletal stays of the five-year-old had been present in bushes close to Taman Bukit Zamrud right here.
