ALOR SETAR, Oct 12 — An allegation that an 18-year-old youth had stolen a motorcycle is believed to have prompted a group of suspects to torture him before his body was found by the roadside in Jalan Harvard, Gurun, last Thursday.
Kedah police chief Datuk Adzli Abu Shah said police received information about the discovery of the body at 8.05am on October 8, while a post-mortem found that the victim had died from blunt force trauma to the head.
He said the suspects were believed to have acted out of anger after receiving complaints from local residents that the victim had stolen a motorcycle.
“The victim was caught in Pendang on October 5 before being taken to the house of one of the suspects, where he was detained for two days, tortured and beaten, and had his hair cut,” he told reporters at the Kedah Contingent Police Headquarters here today.
