Police to release "most recent" photos after questions raised on hiding from public.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Police are to release more recent photographs of convicted killers Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar and Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri after criticism that they were given preferential treatment in hiding their true identities from the public.
Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng demanded that the inspector-general of police explain why the authorities had gone out of their way to hide the faces of the two policemen from the public.
“What is the reason for hiding the faces of both the killers every time they appeared in court until found guilty.”
He questioned whether two photographs released by federal police headquarters on Friday were from 10 years ago, when Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered in connection with commissions for an arms deal for the purchase of the Malaysian navy’s Scorpene submarines.
The IGP, responding to media queries, denied that the police were trying to protect the identities of the killers. He said the police had released the photographs on their own initiative.
“I am not sure when the picture was taken, but we will give the most recent pictures of them that we have,” he told the Rakyat Post on Friday night.
Corporal Sirul is reported to be in Australia, and was not present in court when the Federal Court upheld the pair’s conviction and imposed the death sentence on them.
Lim said fresh photographs were required so that Malaysians in Australia “could help notify the Australian public and authorities about the presence of a killer in their neighbourhood”.
He asked if the government had asked for Sirul’s extradition from Australia. Police have issued an arrest warrant on Sirul.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police are to release more recent photographs of convicted killers Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar and Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri after criticism that they were given preferential treatment in hiding their true identities from the public.
Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng demanded that the inspector-general of police explain why the authorities had gone out of their way to hide the faces of the two policemen from the public.
“What is the reason for hiding the faces of both the killers every time they appeared in court until found guilty.”
He questioned whether two photographs released by federal police headquarters on Friday were from 10 years ago, when Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered in connection with commissions for an arms deal for the purchase of the Malaysian navy’s Scorpene submarines.
The IGP, responding to media queries, denied that the police were trying to protect the identities of the killers. He said the police had released the photographs on their own initiative.
“I am not sure when the picture was taken, but we will give the most recent pictures of them that we have,” he told the Rakyat Post on Friday night.
Corporal Sirul is reported to be in Australia, and was not present in court when the Federal Court upheld the pair’s conviction and imposed the death sentence on them.
Lim said fresh photographs were required so that Malaysians in Australia “could help notify the Australian public and authorities about the presence of a killer in their neighbourhood”.
He asked if the government had asked for Sirul’s extradition from Australia. Police have issued an arrest warrant on Sirul.
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