TAPAH, July 14 — An unemployed man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with the murder of a woman, believed to be his girl friend, whose decomposed body was found in an oil palm plantation last month.
I. Magendran, 40, nodded after the charge was read out to him before Magistrate Mohd Harith Mohd Mazlan, but no plea was recorded.
He was charged under Section 302 of the Penal Code with murdering Siaw Kannagi, 47, between 7am and noon at an oil palm plantation at Km 72 Jalan Ipoh-Kuala Lumpur, Bidor, here last June 26.
Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Azfar Mahmod prosecuted, while Magendran was unrepresented.
The court set Aug 27 for mention pending the post-mortem report and medical report on the victim.
— Bernama
