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- The alleged mastermind behind the murder of Bill Kayong, Dato Stephen Lee, arrives with police escorts at Miri Airport.
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- A handcuffed Lee is brought to a waiting police car.
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- State CID chief Datuk Dev Kumar speaks to reporters at the airport.
MIRI: Dato Stephen Lee will be charged at court at 2pm today for the murder of PKR Miri branch secretary and Bekenu-PKR candidate Bill Kayong, who was shot and killed on June 21.
Lee appeared sullen with his head lowered as he arrived at Miri Airport this morning from Fujian Province, China, where he was caught by the Chinese authorities and subsequently deported.
He had entered China on July 18 and had been there illegally as his passport was terminated by the Immigration Department.
Accompanying Lee was a special police team led by state CID chief Datuk Dev Kumar.
“We had information that the suspect arrived in Fujian Province after he made trips to Singapore and Melbourne,” he told reporters at the airport.
“Perhaps he had relatives or friends there, but the important thing is that we caught him.”
The CID chief had travelled to China to apprehend the suspect, who was then arrested on Dec 12 after the Chinese authorities completed his deportation papers.
Dev added that another suspect, Kong Sien Ming, is still at large and that police are currently tracking his whereabouts.