Murder victim in bag identified as businessman

AMPANG: The murder victim whose body was stuffed in a bag which was then discarded along the Karak Highway has been identified as businessman Khalid Abdullah.

District police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Jalil Hassan said the body was identified based on a tattoo which Khalid's workers had recognised.

Interpol meanwhile, had obtained a photograph of Khalid's wife, an Indian national, who is the prime suspect in the case.

"The woman is believed to have fled to her hometown in Chennai," he said.

Police investigations also revealed that the suspect was Khalid's second wife. His first wife and children are also residing in India. It is understood that police have obtained closed-circuit television camera images from the Immigration Department which showed Khalid's second wife leaving the country.

The woman was believed to have taken her eight-year-old child with her when she left Malaysia between Aug 25 and 30. On Tuesday, authorities conducted a post-mortem on the body at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan.

The body was found inside a medium sized, square bag with wheels. Police suspect that the woman had murdered her husband before stuffing the body into the bag.

She then told a friend that the bag contained a stolen golden statue which she wanted him to dispose. The friend, accompanied by the woman, drove towards Bentong and threw the bag into a secluded spot off the Karak Highway on Aug 22.

However, her friend decided to return to the place where he had dumped the travelling bag to get the statue, only to discover the body inside.