Tayudin Anjut with their families at the Prime Minister
KUALA LUMPUR: The wife of Tayudin Anjut, one of the fishermen abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants, was so afraid of the effect the news would have on her two young children that she lied to them about their father’s whereabouts.
Gustia Sultan, 47, kept the abduction a secret from her children to spare them the emotional trauma, especially her older child, Nurerin Farisha, 13, who was sitting for her UPSR trial exams the day after the abduction.
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