Suspect resists facing the law


BACHOK: Five policemen were needed to subdue a man believed to have killed his eight-month-old baby, after he refused to enter the Magistrate’s Court here for his remand proceedings.

Police on Monday found the body of the baby covered with salt and kept in a sack underneath the kitchen table of a house in Kampung Sungai Dua, Melawi, and arrested the man.

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