Robbery cum rape case considered solved with arrest of suspects

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The 20-year-old and 47-year-old suspects being brought to the police station.

The 20-year-old and 47-year-old suspects being brought to the police station.

KUCHING: Police yesterday successfully apprehended three suspects in connection with a recent robbery cum rape case at a kindergarten in Taman Monah here.

Acting on information, a team from the state contingent’s D9 unit arrested two suspects in Petra Jaya. One of them, aged 20, was arrested earlier at about 11.30am, and had admitted to robbing and raping the victim.

The first suspect, who is a habitual thief, has been arrested several times for housebreaking and theft.

A 47-year-old suspect who was hauled in together, on the other hand, was arrested to assist in the investigation after attempting to sell a television set which was taken by the duo from the kindergarten.

The second suspect in the rape cum robbery case was apprehended at about 3.45pm yesterday at Santubong.

According to state Crime Investigation Department (CID) chief SAC Dev Kumar, the D9 team had been working overtime to solve the case.

He congratulated the team for arresting the suspects two days after the crime was committed.

The case has been considered solved with the arrest of the two main suspects.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar yesterday congratulated the Kuching D9 in his Twitter account for solving the case.

In the Nov 6 incident, a 19-year-old kindergarten assistant was awoken from her sleep around 1am when two men broke into the premises before relieving her of her mobile phone, a gold chain, some cash, a CD player and a television.

Both suspects later took turns to rape the victim, who hailed from Sri Aman.