Gift of bike leads to fatal ending for woman

BALIK PULAU: The motorcycle Tan Saw Sim bought for her close relative to travel around ended up being fatal for her.

Instead of riding the bike around, the relative exchanged it for a pistol. Then, in a fit of anger, he shot dead 55-year-old Tan and three others in Batu Maung here.

According to a source, the man had traded in the machine for the pistol and even flaunted the firearm in front of several foreign workers previously, to have photos taken.

It is learnt that the firearm could have been obtained from a neighbouring country, but police forensics officers said they would carry out a test on the bullet shells to determine the source of the weapon.

The man could also be an accused in a case involving the rape and hurting of a 20-year-old Indonesian woman with electricity, a rotan and an iron rod last year.

There were about 15 workers at the scene of the murder but none of them knew anything was amiss due to the loud noise of machines being operated at the factory.

One of them said he and the workers only went into the container home after the suspect had left the place in a hurry. They were shocked to find bodies sprawled all over the place inside the container home.