BATU PAHAT: Police have confirmed that the four bone fragments found at an abandoned house in Jalan Tongkang Pechah here belong to murdered single mother Mila Sharmilah Samsusah, better known as Bella.
Batu Pahat acting OCPD Supt Shahrulanuar Mushaddat Abdullah Sani said the police received reports of the findings on Feb 28 from the public who were cleaning the house area.
“The bones were then sent to the Chemical Department in Johor Baru to be analysed, and based on the DNA test, the bones match the skeletal remains that were found earlier in the case.
“The Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI) has informed the family members of these findings so that they can claim the remains,” he said in a statement here on Saturday (March 30).
On Jan 24, a former postman was charged in the Magistrate's Court here with the murder of his girlfriend in Tongkang Pechah.
Mohammad Haikal Mahfuz, 25, was charged with murdering Bella, 32, between 11pm on Dec 14 and 5.30am on Dec 15 last year.
The charge, framed under Section 302 of the Penal Code, carries the death penalty.
On Dec 14, it was reported that Bella, a single mother of two children, could not be contacted after she was last seen leaving the house in her boyfriend's car wearing only a dark blue caftan to do laundry at a laundromat.
