Road rage murder suspect remanded five days

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KUCHING: The court yesterday granted the police application to remand a suspect involved in a murder case for five days until Dec 18.

Police arrested the 28-year-old at New Airport Road about 9.30pm on Thursday. The case is being investigated under Section 302 of The Penal Code.

The suspect was alleged to have committed the murder at about 1am at Kenyalang Park on Thursday.

The deceased identified as Mond Ilfan Daud was riding a motorcycle on his way home to Tabuan Foochow together with his cousin Mohamad Rafi Puteh who is the complainant of the case when they collided with a car driven by the suspect.

While Ilfan and the car driver quarrelled over the collision Rafi was making a call seeking help.

He later saw Ilfan laying in a pool of blood on the road with slash wounds on his neck and other parts of body. The 25-year-old deceased was slashed on the neck and other parts of the body with a cockspur by the killer.

Police later recovered a cockspur sheath believed to have been left by the killer.

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