Ahmad Najib Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Canny Ong
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Ahmad Najib Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Canny Ong
GUILTY… Aircraft cabin cleaning supervisor Ahmad Najib Aris sentenced to
death by the High Court in Shah Alam for murdering US-based IT analyst
Canny Ong Lay Kian in June 2003. Pix: Razali Nordin
SHAH ALAM, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- Aircraft cabin cleaning supervisor Ahmad
Najib Aris was sentenced to death by the High Court here Wednesday for
murdering US-based IT analyst Canny Ong Lay Kian in June 2003.
Ahmad Najib, 29, was also sentenced to the maximum 20 years' jail and
ordered to be given 10 strokes of the rotan for raping Ong.
Justice Datuk Muhamad Ideres Muhamad Rapee ordered the jail term to
commence from June 20 2003, the day he was arrested.
Ahmad Najib was found guilty of raping and murdering Ong, 28, at
KM11.2 Jalan Klang Lama here, between 1 am and 5 am on June 14 2003.
Ahmad Najib appeared calm when Justice Muhamad Ideres passed the sentence.
Earlier, he was seen to be mumbling to himself.
After the proceedings, Ahmad Najib's wife, Zaharah Suppian Suppiah,
wiped his tears. He was then already in handcuffs.
"What's decided by the judge that's the outcome. I consider everything
as a test for me...a test is meant as a challenge. A test to me is to
gauge one's patience. I don't have any fear (of death), I feel perfectly
normal. If there is an occasion for us to meet, we'll meet again. This
is what I have expected," he said.
The trial lasted 46 days beginning on Sept 15 2003 and ended May 20
last year when the prosecution closed its case.
The trial, which was given wide publicity, had horrified the nation
with its tales of abduction, rape, murder and the dumping of the body
into a manhole and burning it.
The prosecution called 44 witnesses, including Ong's parents, and at
the end of the prosecution's case, the judge ordered Ahmad Najib to make
his defence.
However, Ahmad Najib stunned everyone when he chose to remain silent.
Among the evidence adduced was that on the state of Ong's charred
remains which were found buried under two cement-filled tyres in a
manhole measuring 1x1x1 metre four days after she was abducted from a
basement car park in Bangsar Shopping Complex (BSC).
In his judgment, Justice Muhamad Ideres said that the prosecution had
established a prima facie case against Ahmad Najib.
He said that the only alternative for him was to find him guilty and
convict him of both charges of rape and murder, citing a Federal Court
ruling that when a prima facie case had been established against an
accused person and he chose to remain silent, he must be convicted.
In mitigation, defence counsel Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla said that
Ahmad Najib has two children, aged two and three, and has to take care
of his parents who are ill as well as his younger siblings.
He said that Ahmad Najib only studied up to Form Three as he had to
support his family who is not well-to-do. He worked as a labourer and a
general worker in Muar, his hometown, before coming to Kuala Lumpur.
His wife, he said, works as a clerk in a finance company.
Furthermore, he said, Ahmad Najib is a first offender,
Deputy Public Prosecutor Salehuddin Saidin said that for the offence
of murder, the mandatory death sentence should be imposed.
As for the offence of rape, he said, the court should impose the
maximum sentence based on the evidence adduced in court.
During the trial, Ong's mother, Pearley Visvanathan, testified that
her daughter did not return after she went to take a parking ticket that
she had left in her Proton Tiara car at the basement car park of the
complex.
A policeman, L/Kpl S. Ravichandran, testified that Ong gave distress
signals to him and also prayer gestures pointing to Ahmad Najib when he
inspected the car in which she and Ahmad Najib was in.
A clerk, Aminah Isahak, who also saw Ong and Ahmad Najib in a Proton
Tiara parked near the Leisure Commerce Square building the night she
went missing, told the court that Ong, in a sexy black net dress, was
giving facial distress signals.
She also testified that although Ong appeared scared, she refused to
come out of the car when Ahmad Najib was attending to a punctured tyre.
Azizam Ismail, a former technician who saw the car parked along Jalan
Klang Lama, testified that he saw a topless woman stretched across the
back seat of a Proton Tiara when he stopped to "take a leak" on the way
back to his office in Bukit Lanjan, Damansara.
He said that he saw Ahmad Najib with Ong in the car and thought that
they were making love.
Former Petaling Jaya magistrate Muhamad Rushdan Mohamd testified that
Ahmad Najib's confession was voluntary and sincere as he said that
nobody forced, threatened, coerced, induced or promised him anything
into confessing.
The court also admitted Ahmad Najib's confession in which he confessed
having sexual intercourse with Ong and then stabbing her twice in the
stomach before leaving her to bleed to death in the manhole.
In the confession, Ahmad Najib also told the Ong he would burn the
body. He said (in the statement) that the gag on Ong's mouth came off
and she asked him to leave her alone (in the manhole). He said Ong told
him that she was going to heaven and he left her and closed the manhole
with planks.
Forensic pathologist Prof Dr Kasinathan Nadesan said Ong was stabbed
and was bleeding heavily and that she was then strangled with a piece of
cloth that resembled a crepe bandage before her body was burnt.
Head of the Serology/DNA Section of the Forensics Division of the
Petaling Jaya Chemistry Department J. Primulapathi testified that the
bloodstains on the jeans belonging to Ahmad Najib was that of Ong's.
Meanwhile, Pearly Visvanathan, 58, said that even though the death
sentence had been imposed on Ahmad Najib, it would not bring her
daughter back.
"...I'm not saying that I'm happy because I sympathise with Ahmad
Najib's family...this is all God's will...it's just that Canny was
unfortunate to be at the wrong place at the wrong time...life must go
on," she said after the proceedings, accompanied by her sister and niece.
Asked about her husband, Ong Bee Jeng, 65, who was absent, she said
that her husband still could not accept the fact that their daughter was
gone, adding that she hoped Canny's husband, Brendan, would remarry and
start a new life.
"I hope her husband will get married again...he has to move on..." she
said.
Salehuddin, met by reporters, said that the prosecution was happy with
the court's decision.
"This however, is not the final decision and we are prepared to face
the appeal filed by the defence," said Salehuddin, assisted by DPPs
Noorin Badaruddin and Kwan Li Sa.
Mohamed Hanif, met later, said that the defence would file an appeal
in the Court of Appeal soon.
"The right to remain silent was the best strategy. I stand by it.
Ahmad Najib stands by it," he said when asked whether the move by the
defence to opt to remain silent when Ahmad Najib was called to enter his
defence would have an effect in the appeal.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Najib's mother, who was present during the
proceedings, was ushered out of the courtroom by relatives as soon as
sentence was passed.
She and Zaharah declined any comment when met by reporters.
-- BERNAMA
michael
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>February 23, 2005 14:54 PM
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>Ahmad Najib Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Canny Ong
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>GUILTY… Aircraft cabin cleaning supervisor Ahmad Najib Aris sentenced to
>death by the High Court in Shah Alam for murdering US-based IT analyst
>Canny Ong Lay Kian in June 2003. Pix: Razali Nordin
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>SHAH ALAM, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- Aircraft cabin cleaning supervisor Ahmad
>Najib Aris was sentenced to death by the High Court here Wednesday for
>murdering US-based IT analyst Canny Ong Lay Kian in June 2003.
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> Ahmad Najib, 29, was also sentenced to the maximum 20 years' jail and
>ordered to be given 10 strokes of the rotan for raping Ong.
I wonder in view of the death penalty, would the sentence involving 10 strokes of the rotan still be meted out ?
regards,
michael ... afn2...@afn.org
fairplay
death would be too easy for him..
cheamc
till death? I watched the late night TV3 news and saw this guys talk, felt
like not guilty and interview like star. Is this a new trend murderer or he
really not guilty?
"fairplay" <fair...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
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Mr Magoo
michael wrote:
----snip----
> I wonder in view of the death penalty, would the sentence involving
10 strokes of the rotan still be meted out ?
I think they will only implement the heavier sentences which is the
death penalty.
Rgds,
Mr Magoo
alex®
cheamc wrote:
> What is the sentenced to death mean? Is that mean life in prison or hang
> till death? I watched the late night TV3 news and saw this guys talk, felt
> like not guilty and interview like star. Is this a new trend murderer or he
> really not guilty?
>
After stabbing her, he left her in the manhole to die, because he said
that was what *she wanted*. So because she denied his *offer to help
send her to hospital*, that means he's not guilty. Ummm....if you
believe that...then ummm...yeah, you *might* think he's not guilty.
sabeng
alex®
sabeng wrote:
> what happen to the along???
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What along?
Mr Magoo
There are some conspiracy theories who try to spin a tale that Canny
Ong was murdered by some along (who was paid by a dato who happened to
be her sugardad?) Don't tell me you didn't here that kind of far
fetched story during your teh tarik session. :)
Rgds,
Mr Magoo
alex®
Mr Magoo wrote:
> alexŽ wrote:
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> There are some conspiracy theories who try to spin a tale that Canny
> Ong was murdered by some along (who was paid by a dato who happened to
> be her sugardad?) Don't tell me you didn't here that kind of far
> fetched story during your teh tarik session. :)
No, I didn't. But I'm in East Malaysia so maybe the story can't reach
that far. Just curious, we had an Assistant Minister murdered here about
6 mths earlier. She was a woman. Did you hear the conspiracy stories
about her in the West?
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> Rgds,
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> Mr Magoo
>
Mr Magoo
alex® wrote:
> Mr Magoo wrote:
Yes. We did. It seems that either the people over here are more kaypoh
or we do spend more time in mamak stall. :)
Rgds,
Mr Magoo
Riglin
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> Ahmad Najib Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Canny Ong
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> a test for me...a test is meant as a challenge. A test to me is to gauge
> one's patience. I don't have any fear (of death), I feel perfectly normal.
> If there is an occasion for us to meet, we'll meet again. This is what I
> have expected," he said.
>
That's very cocky of him in saying that. Is it because this is a cock year?
What test is he talking about? That whether he can get away from a crime he
did by denying doing it till the end?
Saying that himself is feeling perfectly normal in being sentenced to death
shows that he knows he deserves it. If he did not do it, then he should not
feel normal about the death sentence.
I think he should just keep his silence. Talking of patience (in stalking
his victims?). Talking of meeting again (his victim?),yeah, in an occasion
where his victim come to repay his deed or to forgive him.
Pity the wife still in denial.
kyle
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> death would be too easy for him..
He should die the way he murdered his victim.
But of course for the raping part, use a club with nails in his ass
instead.
TheRomanov
is that Botak Chin have to be carried to the gallow. He don't have the
energy to walk when his number was up.
Good to do it in public as a lesson to others.
Red Dragon
> his victims?). Talking of meeting again (his victim?),yeah, in an occasion
> where his victim come to repay his deed or to forgive him.
>
> Pity the wife still in denial.
He is not talking about meeting Canny again because he knows Canny is going
to Heaven and he is going to Hell. His "meeting again" is because he
intends to appeal and will meet his prosecutor again in the Appeal Court.
The Appeal Court will only consider to sit if new evidence are presented.
When Najip chose to remain silent when the chance came for him to make his
defense, I concluded straightaway he was a goner. For to elect to remain
silent is to acknowledge a sense of guilt. Yet my lawyer friend explained
to me that he did the right thing. Najip's lawyer was banging on the
Court's sympathy for the evidence against him was too overwhelming. And
also that if he were to open his mouth, he would make things worse by
saying the wrong things.
He is a crazy nut because despite surrendering his and Canny's IC to the
Police and scooting off and despite knowing the Police can easily nail him,
he can still proceed to rape and murder.
He got 10 strokes and 20 years for rape and hanging for murder. He will
receive first the 10 strokes and sit out his sentence beginnng from 20 June
2003. After discounting for holidays and good behaviour and other factors,
he will then face the noose in about 15 years.
I agree that Justice has prevailed. But it would be better to have him
hung straightaway so as to save Taxpayer's money.
Red Dragon
> his victims?). Talking of meeting again (his victim?),yeah, in an occasion
> where his victim come to repay his deed or to forgive him.
>
> Pity the wife still in denial.
He is not talking about meeting Canny again because he knows Canny is going
cheamc
prison or Hang till death? I watched the late night TV3 news and I saw him
like don't felt guilty and interview like star. Is that a new trend of
murderer on the rise or he really not guilty?.
"fairplay" <fair...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
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> February 23, 2005 14:54 PM
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> Ahmad Najib Sentenced To Death For Murder Of Canny Onghat
Red Dragon
wins his appeal to the Federal Court on his Death Sentence.