Murder mystery of Malaysia Most recent and shocking case of murder mystery in the month of August was that of 47 years Sosilawati Lawiya, an entrepreneur as well as the part owner of Nouvelles Beauty Centre. Sosilawati was born in Indonesia but she also became prominent during early 1990s as a powerful and wealthy businesswoman in Malaysia with crores of wealth. One day she set out from her house in Kuala Lumpur to attend a business meeting in Banting and that was the last seen of her.
As we shall see in the next section, just before leaving her husband went to call Sosilawati’s daughter and told her that she would be late because she was going to a meeting. ‘Tonight you’ll be late I’m going for a business deal so just wait for me,’ said Lucy. Sadly for her, her daughter did not know that this would be the last time she would ever talk to her mother. When hours went by and Sosilawati did not come home her family started to worry about what might have happened to her.
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A discovery of alarming trend and the first step into the investigation
When the night became dark, Sosilawati’s daughter attempted to call her mother but the phone battery had been drained out. Panic set in as she frantically called the others who had accompanied her mother that day: Abdul Karim aged 32 years, a lawyer by profession, Shansuddin, a driver aged 44 years and Mohamad a bank officer aged 38. When she could not get hold of any of them she called their families – no one of the men had come back home.
Nine days later, Sosilawati’s daughter went to the police station to report her missing after thinking the worst had happened. Sensing the danger on the ground the police promptly initiated an investigation into the matter. Little did they know that this was not just another case of going missing but this was going to become one of the most sensational crimes that would go on to dominate the country.
The police first interrogated Sosilawati’s daughter as to the last time she talked to her mother before her death. To her surprise, she said that her mother told her of a meeting in Banting with a famous lawyer called Pathmanabhan and his brother Surendar. The police were quickly able to recognize both of the men as native Indians who migrated to Malaysia and were involved in legal matters, legal representation and land dealing for its high-level clients. Cited by her daughter, Sosilawati had gone to meet the brothers for a deal concerning a piece of land.
Asked, Pathmanabhan alleges that, though Sosilawati was to meet him, she never arrived on the scene. He said that he attempted to reach her on phone, but her phone line was out of reach. To which he vehemently stated that he had no hand in her disappearance. With nothing concrete pointing to the contrary the police shifted their focus on Sosilawati’s former husband Nash, also known a rock singer. The man and the woman were legally separated and Sosilawati had sought a property suit against him. But this investigation into the Nash, there was no found proof that could connect him to the case.
Evidence That Founded the Shift
Due to lack of leads for several days, the break through was arrived on September 6, 2010, where a BMW car was discovered parked in an apartment lot of Subang Jaya which has been there for one week. On investigation the police also found that the car belonged to Sosilawati. In the Saturday edition I realized there was another BMW in her compound, a silver one, which I did not earlier notice because it was parked inside a compound around the corner a few streets away, in front of a five star hotel which is the residence of her lawyer Abdul Karim. One location was just 100 meters away while the other was a 2 km radius from Pathmanabhan’s office thus reviving the police suspicions.
Further investigation, the police went on to investigate the last known signals from the mobile phones which belonged to Sosilawati and her companions. All these phones had been sited at a farmhouse whose owner was none but Pathmanabhan before the phones were switched off. On September 11, 2010 ten days after Sosilawati had been reported missing the police arrested Pathmanabhan and his brother Surendar. But in spite of the presumptions, both men asserted their innocence in the case thus leaving the police in a dilemma.
The case, however,<|reserved_special_token_260|> when the police interrogated some of the workers at Pathmanabhan’s farm. A female worker testified, she saw a woman and three men arrived at the farmhouse about at 8:30 p. m., she heard the scream of a woman, then she heard burning sound. The workers she mentioned; Thilaiyalagan, Kathavarayan and Matan were arrested for interrogation on the same day.
In the beginning, the three men including Pathmanabhan also rejected their complicity of the crime. But during interrogation, police observed that that Katthavarayan was wearing a Rolex watch. He, under pressure, when questioned about it began telling about the dreadful events that had taken place on that fateful night.
A Tax Story of Greed and Murder
Kathavarayan stated that Pathmanabhan, a lawyer, and land broker had contacted her, Sosilawati, to sell land in Penang. The land was then sold for 4 million Malaysian ringgit to a politician. However, the money was not sent to Sosilawati but instead was deposited to Pathmanabhan’s account. Pathmanabhan, then, wrote two checks payable to Sosilawati post-dated for the amount.
Sosilawati soon faced some financial crisis and requested Pathmanabhan to alter the dates on the cheques. On the night of August, 30 she went to his office regarding the issue. Little did she know that, Pathmanabhan had long stolen the money and was in a fix not to pay her back. Fearing to be exposed by Sosilawati, Pathmanabhan planned to murder her and her companions in order to hide his action.
The crime was already foreseen, and the farmhouse was even set up for the actualization of the crime undertaken. When Sosilawati and the other reached the scene with their car, they were attacked and bludgeoned with cricket bats. Within minutes, they were all overpowered, and handcuffed along with their ankles tied with wired ropes. They screamed for mercy, they begged him for their lives but Pathmanabhan’s greed got the better of him. He killed each of them with a sharp iron rod by stabbing them in their bodies until they gave up the ghost.
Justice Served
Pathmanabhan and his men later on fumes the bodies by burning them on the compound of the farmhouse to eliminate their evidence of the murders. They put the remains in a container then threw the container with this remains into a nearby river. Even when he described many gory details of how he killed all the people he kidnapped including the kids, at first, he tried to down play his role telling the police he was just an observer. But what the police failed to get was direct evidence as the killer had destroyed all evidence of the crime by extinguishing all the flames which would have given them a clear and direct clue to the criminals involved in the gruesome act.
In May 2013 the court convicted and sentenced Pathmanabhan, Kathavarayan, and Thilaiyalagan to death penalty. They filed an appeal against this decision and in March the Federal court also affirmed the death penalties. However, one of the accused, Matan, was released because there was no enough evidence that employed him in the killings.
Some Lessons from a Catastroph
Sosilawati Lawiya’s tragic story underscores a very unpleasant lesson: Greed always has fatal consequences. Due to the desire for wealth, many people became killed in cold blood only because of material values, four people lost their lives. This case clearly demonstrates that as much as one may be rich he or she cannot enjoy peace of mind because greed leads individuals to commit heinous crimes.
The loss borne by the families, especially of the low income earner driver Shansuddin is disheartening to the extend that one can attempt to fathom. The only hope is that they have gained enough strength to come out of the disaster afresh.
As a conclusion allow me to present my opinion on this case.The case stands as evidence for the argument that freedom of speech and the press should not be restricted by state regulation, instead, they should be bound by the standard of ethical behavior More on Ethical Dilemmas for Journalists. Feel free to comment below and also let us know which of the cases you would wish to hear next.
