Police may have found Sosilawati’s driver’s watch

 

Sosilawati was reported missing since August 30, and police believe she has been killed and her body burned.

 

TANJUNG SEPAT, Sept 13 — Police have found a watch believed to belong to Kamaruddin Shamsudin, the dead driver of murdered cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya, in a river about 5km from where they were believed to have been killed.

It is understood that three police divers found the watch in Sungai Kanchong Laut outside Kampung Endah here after two men, believed to be suspects arrested in connection to the case, were seen pointing at the river. Police have detained eight people in connection with the case.

According to a local resident, the river flows through Kampung Endah, which is connected to Ladang Gadong via a back road.

The police later called off the underwater search at 7pm as it was getting dark.

Sosilawati, 47; Kamaruddin, 44; Kampung Baru CIMB officer Noorhisham Mohammad, 38, and lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim, 32, were reported missing since August 30 after going to Banting to buy property.

The police believe Sosilawati and her companions may have been killed and their bodies burned following the discovery of charred remains at a poultry farm here on Saturday night.

Locals gather to watch police divers in action outside Kampung Endah.

The police learned that their ashes may have been scattered along a river near the farm.

CID director Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin yesterday said police were still trying to obtain forensic confirmation to identify the dead, revealing that the four were set ablaze and their ashes scattered into a river near Ladang Gadong in Tanjung Sepat near here.

A Datuk, his brother — both said to be lawyers — and six others have been arrested in connection with the case.

The suspects, aged between 19 and 41, are now being held at the Bukit Jalil police station in Kuala Lumpur, Bakri revealed. It is learnt that police have obtained seven-day remand orders to facilitate investigations into the case.

Police are also investigating several other kidnap-murder cases based on the statements given by the suspects arrested so far. - The Malaysian Insider