KOTA TINGGI, Oct 28 — A 41-year-old man suspected of hacking an elderly settler to death with an axe in Felda Lok Heng Selatan was remanded for seven days today to facilitate a murder investigation.

Pengerang Sessions Court Judge Hidayatul Syuhada Shamsudin granted the remand order, allowing police to detain the suspect until Nov 3 for investigations under Section 302 of the Penal Code.

Handcuffed and dressed in orange lock-up attire, the suspect arrived at the court complex at 9.45am under heavy police escort.

Johor police chief Datuk Ab Rahaman Arsad said yesterday that investigators arrested the man inside a nearby oil palm plantation on Tuesday morning, seizing a motorcycle alongside an axe believed to have been used in the fatal attack.