All 12 suspects in murder case released

Chee: Was abducted while she was jogging.

SUNGAI PETANI: All 12 foreign workers remanded in connection with the rape and murder of marketing executive Chee Gaik Yap have been released. 

They were released on Thursday as their DNA did not match the DNA profile found on Chee. 

Seven of the workers were handed over to the Immigration Department as they did not have their passports on them. 

The 12, in their 20s, were picked up on Feb 1 at a construction site in Aman Jaya here.  

The workers were the second batch of “suspects” picked up in connection with the case. 

On Jan 17, police picked up six workers of a recreation club near Taman Ria Jaya where Chee was last seen jogging on Jan 14. 

The workers, aged 20 to 40, were remanded for 12 days until Jan 26 and were released by a magistrate’s court after their DNA also did not match the DNA profile found on Chee. 

Chee was abducted while she was jogging at a recreational area near Taman Ria Jaya at 6pm on Jan 14.  

Her semi-nude body with only a T-shirt pushed up to her neck was found sprawled on the ground about 200m from the residential area with a stab wound some nine hours later at 2.35am on Jan 15.