2007 07: Cabbie among four held in Johor and Selangor for rape

The Star online. Fight Crime. News. Thursday July 5, 2007

JOHOR BARU: Four men – one here and three in Selangor – were arrested over the past two days for rape and molest.

At 12.30am yesterday, police picked up a 33-year-old taxi-driver here, following a rape and robbery report by a restaurant assistant.

The 41-year-old woman had boarded the cab at Jalan Siu Nam after returning from her workplace in Singapore at 10.30pm on March 25.

The taxi later picked up a male passenger at nearby Jalan Wong Ah Fook.

At Jalan Pelangi, the passenger pulled out a knife and demanded that the woman hand over all her belongings.

Johor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Hussin Ismail said the victim handed over her bag, which contained RM1,300, S$200, a mobile phone and her passport.

After the passenger left, the cab driver drove the woman to an empty house, where he raped her.

In KLANG, police picked up three men on Tuesday, following complaints by two teenagers on Sunday.

The two 16-year-olds were raped in separate incidents at Taman Sentosa.

In the first case, the victim said a former schoolmate had invited her to his house, where she met two other men. The men took turns to rape her.

The girl lodged a report at the Puchong police station on Monday after relating the incident to her aunt.

Klang OCPD ACP Mohd Rodwan Yusof said a 19-year-old factory worker and a despatch clerk, 20, were picked up from a house at Jalan Datuk Abdul Hamid at 1.30pm on Tuesday.
Police are looking for the third suspect, aged 20, from Jengka, Pahang.

In the other incident, the victim’s father led police to a house in Jalan Hulu Baling, where they detained a 21-year-old forklift driver.

The father had reported to police that his daughter had not returned home on Sunday and had allegedly spent the night at the man’s place.

In KUCHING, Federal CID director Comm Datuk Christopher Wan Soo Kee told reporters that there had been a 28% increase in rape cases between January and May this year, compared to the same period last year.

He claimed, however, that the overall crime index in Johor, had dropped by 4.7% in the first five months of the year compared to last year.