Malaysia Update

GEORGE TOWN: The skeletal remains of a seven-year-old disabled girl, who died after being allegedly beaten by her father in 2006, were exhumed from a shallow grave in Jalan Kampung Pisang, Air Itam, here.

Police carried out the exhumation following a report by a close relative accusing the father of filicide. The man was arrested on Tuesday night.

One of the man’s three sons led police to the gruesome discovery in an open field at 1pm yesterday. The three brothers were at the scene when police exhumed the girl’s remains.


Brutal end: Forensic police collecting what’s believed to be Priya’s skull from a shallow grave in Air Itam.
State CID chief Senior Asst Comm II Wan Abdullah Tuanku Said said police were assisted by forensic pathologist Datuk Dr Bhupinder Singh.

“Our investigations found that the girl, identified as Priya, could have been beaten to death with a stick at a house in Bandar Baru Air Itam in March 2006.


Her three brothers were at the scene after one of them led police to the site.
“She was then taken to the site and buried. We have classified the case as murder.

“The father, an odd-job labourer in his 40s, has been remanded by a magistrates court,” he said, adding that police were looking to the girl’s mother to assist in the investigations.

It is learnt that only 60% of the skeletal remains were found.