MURDER OF NURIN JAZLIN

On the evening of August 20th 2007, a young innocent girl decided to go to night market by her own self. She was only eight years old during that time. She wanted to go to the night market in order to get her own self a new hair grip. Nurin went out and made her way towards the night market that located approximately 100m away from the family flat. Back at home, Nurin’s parents became panic after realized that their daughter had not returned home yet. When the night was getting late, her father decided to went out to search his missing daughter but failed. Her father, Jazimin asked the traders at the night market but were told that they not seen her since her last purchase. Finally Jazimin went  to the local police station to lodge a report about his missing daughter. It was already 3 a.m. in the morning approximately 7 hours since the abduction had taken place.

In Nurin’s case, it was most likely a crime of opportunity. It was not because her parents were careless about their daughter’s safety. It was just pure bad luck that Nurin chose to brave that very night out alone for the first time, unaware that a predator was on the hunt for a potential victim close by. Her disappearance became the headlines for local newspapers the next day of her disappearance. Her mother was crying when thinking about her missing child. The police classified this case as kidnapping case. The very next day, the little eyewitness stepped forward with her information. She had seen Nurin being persuaded by an unknown man to follow him, before being dragged and bundled into his white van. She even overheard Nurin saying “No!” repeatedly to the perpetrator.

Nurin’s disappearance made her parents worried about her health condition since their daughter were having heart and kidney problems. On September 17th, a company supervisor in Petaling Jaya stumbled across a large Diadora sports bag outside the company premises when she came to open the store. It was Monday morning. She initially thought the bag belonged to her employer who had just returned from a trip but when the general manager of the company arrived 30 minutes later, it was discovered that the bag did not belong to him.

 Upon opening the bag to search for identification or . The body in the bag was a female child, aged between 6 and 8. She had been sexually-assclues to the owner, to his horror, he found a body within. He immediately alerted the policeaulted and strangled. Reports confirmed that she died approximately 6 hours prior to being transported to the “dump site”. Nurin’s parents rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for the identification procedure, barely able to brace themselves for the impending nightmare. Due to severe physical changes on the body caused by trauma, the husband and wife were unable to recognize her but the subsequent DNA testing proved that the body in the morgue was indeed their child

Until today this case are no answer and  Jazimin, his wife and his family and relatives are still hopeful that the police will apprehend the person responsible. They are hoping that justice will prevail.

Written by Syed Mohamad Nurfurqhan b. Syed Mohamed Redzuan  and Nur Amira